Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.
No more billionaires. None.
Once you hit $999 million, every extra cent goes to schools and health care.
You get a trophy that says: “I won capitalism.”
And we name a dog park after you.
If your name isn’t Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, you can’t chat to Neymar about anything football, especially in the last 20 years. Let’s all respect ourselves here.
A 5% wealth tax on 200 billionaires worth $2 trillion in California isn’t scary. They’d still be worth $1.9 trillion.
What’s scary is 1 out of 4 cancer patients in America either declare bankruptcy or lose their homes to eviction or foreclosure due to medical debt. That’s scary.
There are now 2,900 billionaires, and they hold $15.8 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.
It never ceases to amaze me how billionaires who already have enough money to last 1,000 lifetimes still want more money and have no desire to help the poor, the disabled or the elderly.
Bill Gates predicts AI could open up a new era for workers, where a 2-day workweek is the norm, machines do the hard work, and people have more time to do the things they love, per FORTUNE