Hey, look! It's me! I'm a statistic now!
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2024
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That money has to come from somewhere.
Extreme wealth hoarding is an inherent end result of capitalism, which we could eliminate by capping wealth and channeling all excess income directly to public use. This would not be easy AT ALL because of the political opposition (which is mostly conditioning). But we won't do it, instead we will wait until the problem gets so bad it causes a revolt and then we'll blame the revolters.
This is the natural result of decades of sustained exponential growth. At roughly 10%/yr, markets will double every 7-8 years. That's three doubling times in about 25 years, or 2^3 which is 8x. And that's how you get a house that was like $100k-$200k in the year 2000 to turn into a house for like $800k-$1.2m in 2024. It's only going to get worse.
Yup.
- Open the rich like tauntauns
- Live inside them
- Housing crisis solved
Issues with this post/CNN article:
1 - Where is Mark Zuckerberg in the photo? He is currently the 3rd richest.
2 - The article is a year old - Musk's net worth has went up $223 billion just in calendar year 2024 alone.
So, the article is technically right (fortunes have more than doubled) but some billionaires have tripled or more.
Wealth of billionaires almost 5 years ago - Jan 1, 2020
Wealth of billionaires today - Dec 27, 2024
Just in that 5 year period Elon Musk went from $27 billion to $452 billion!
Zuckerberg almost tripled and Larry Ellison almost quadrupled!
Other non-top 5 billionaires like Michael Dell went from $30 billion to $127 billion!
Jensen Huang (founder of NVIDIA) went from $5.73 billion to $120 billion! - so his wealth multiplied by a factor of more than 20!
All of those gains posted above happened in a short 5 year period. So, saying billionaires have doubled
their net worth is technically accurate but it's not showing you the insanity of what's really going on.
The system is working as intended.
If you don't like it.... Well, Luigi set an example there.
GL HF.
Not a meme.
It is actually:
Meme - noun
- an idea that is passed from one member of society to another, not in the genes but often by people copying it
- Other cultures have similar versions of this meme.
- the political and cultural memes of the 21st century
- an image, a video, a piece of text, etc. that is passed very quickly from one internet user to another, often with slight changes that make it humorous
- an internet meme/a blog meme
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/meme
It's a meme in the same sense that some SCPs are described as memetic. Being humorous is not a requirement, though it is often the intention.
By Dawknin’s original definition (cultural) memes are ideas, behaviors, styles, or practices that spread within a culture by imitation (Greek mimema, meaning “imitated”) and carry symbolic meaning. Some examples would be the “Keep Calm And Carry On” posters during WW2, the concept of the “American Dream” or toasting with glasses.
However in this context we’re talking about internet memes which is not synonymous with cultural memes. An internet meme is a picture or video that is funny, ironic, or relateable.
Eh it absolutely is synonymous. And in the broader point that Dawkins made that you are missing out on is that evolution can act on these units. Since there is a selective pressure we should hardly expect them too look the same over time unless they are particularly well suited, case in point:
an image, a video, a piece of text, etc. that is passed very quickly from one internet user to another
This still fits even with the context.
Yeah, this is just pointing out the problem.
Surely completely unrelated statistics.
Infinite pie evangelists in shambles.
So who's going to have the balls for the job?
Not me. However there are 8 billion people in the world. I have my doubts that you can continue squeezing everyone as hard as you can without them eventually getting pissed and fight back.
The number of poor people in the world greatly out numbers these rich fucks. No amount of political posturing or technology will save them. You reap what you sow and what they have sowed is civil unrest.
It might not seem like it today, but judgement day is coming.
This is the official regime policy. Looks everything is working great.