The world’s 8 richest billionaires have the same wealth as the poorest 50% of the global population of 3.8 billion people

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• ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can we tax them now please?

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think that’s being too kind.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You misspelled tar and weathers.

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• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ✔️ Spaceships

  ❌ Sharing

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• sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Eat The Rich!

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  • Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ask AI for the recipe.

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• eran_morad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Guillotines, bruh.

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  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like the fact we’re warming up to the guillotine but we should probably have a plan for when and how to use it otherwise we might end up with another Robespierre on our hands which can be quite problematic.

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  • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only need 8

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Only need 1 and a sponge. And we don’t really need the sponge.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The scary thing is that I’m sure they’re proud of this fact.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, those 8 are probably more like “how do those 3.8 billion poor people have anything?”

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “It’s not enough!” 🤑🤑🤑🤑

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but I think the admiration they get from countless others is an even bigger problem. It’s as if they are the pinnacle of what a human can be. Because… money?

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is called narcissism

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• Nacktmull@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  fabriquer une guillotine

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• missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Such a lazy bunch, they could’ve worked 500 million times as hard.

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• Bobzor@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder wheter I’m in the bottom or top 50%

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  • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you live in a “developed” country, and you are not homeless, you are probably not in that 50%. That 50% largely lives on ~3 dollars a day on average.

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    • Iceblade02@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not necessarily. Folks in developed countries have much greater opportunities to rack up debt and large negative equity. I would not be surprised if the bottom % are made up of students and gamblers that in practice have a far higher standard of living due to their access to money, relative to the developing world where people with a “net 0” balance are starving to death.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But I might join their ranks one day, so this is an aspirational post, right? /s

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  that is a cage match that I would like to see

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m reading this as “8 people have half of all the money in the world” is that correct?

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  • JamesFire@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is not. Because of wealth disparity, that half of the population has less than half the money.

    It’s still disgusting.

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    • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This makes sense. Yes. And yes.

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• mojo_raisin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  State is the mechanism that allows them to exist, it is it’s purpose.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t understand this statement. What is meant by “state”?

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    • mojo_raisin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The word “state” when used this way refers to a group of people that feel entitled to use violence to formally dominate a given region. Unlike a simple gang, they create strict formal hierarchy and have rules that apply to those they dominate but not them. They are allowed to use violence and this is acceptable, me and you are not allowed to defend ourselves, we are to give up virtually all our “rights” to self-defense to the state. A state gaslights it’s victims into believing that it is necessary to protect them from themselves and other states, and the only way civilization can exist.

      This is not to be confused with “government”, which is a management function most states perform to some degree and which does not require a state.

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• AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I never like this particular comparison because there are so many people in the world who have nothing, or nothing but debt. Is hard to tell from it how much is the wealth of the top or the poverty of the bottom. It would almost be better to compare to the next group down, or to an average or something.

  Maybe a graph with one block being the richest person, and then groups of the next n richest people, however many it takes to equal the richest. And then keep doing that, so there’s more and more blocks to equal the richest. I bet it ramps up really fast.

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