Combined assets of $14.2tn are more than the GDP of every country except China and the US
Archived version: https://archive.ph/o2gaB
amazing is not the word I would have used
When was the last good year for poor people? Anyone? Bueller?
Probably 2020 and 2021 when we were excused from paying rent for awhile, and $1,000 magically appeared in our bank accounts a few times.
2020 was the best year of my life.
The last time was probably the Neolithic Revolution
Before it.
Agriculture actually made people’s lives much worse in many regards. Worse diet, women turned into commodities, shorter life spans due to increased infectious diseases, much less free time due to having to put more effort into getting food (somewhat surprisingly hunter-gatherers have way more free time) etc. It’s been great for rulers and population growth though. If anything, poor people were invented in the Neolithic Revolution
edit: see eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7253633/, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110615094514.htm
She could donate a life-changing amount of money to every Fediverse user and still have more left over than she knows to do with.
But why would she? She earned that, while you’re dreaming about life-changing sums falling from the sky.
It’s mostly tongue-in-cheek. I’m not actually suggesting that Taylor Swift should give away all her money to randos on the Internet.
So could the other 140 people who became billionaires this year, and that’s not even mentioning all the existing billionaires. I really don’t understand what this focus on Taylor Swift is about.
They could fund everyone in the Fediverse and Reddit combined!
/s because it ain’t happening :(