Peter GleickIf you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 million years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
PetterOfCats@petergleick every dollar a billionaire or trillionaire or whatever-aire has was taken from some one somewhere. Nothing was earned. The money just didn’t poof into existence nor is there an infinite supply of it.
Brahms@PetterOfCats @petergleick well, in a way it did poof into existence (when it was created by a central authority)
of course your point still stands and is absolutely valid
@brahms @petergleick oh I know, but it’s rare to find people that understand that fact or at least understand it to the point of awareness.