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  • paintbucketholder@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.

    The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn’t matter whether they’re being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      But I want to quietly pull the strings of society so everyone can have food and housing security, get rid of food deserts, and end Elon Musk personally. Like, with my hands. Give me a billion dollars

    • OrnatePotato@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Tangential, but I’ve always wondered why in English 10^9 is one billion. 10^6 is one million. Twice as many zeroes should be one billion. Three times as many, one trillion, etc.

      • Logi@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Only in English is this weird naming system used and originally only in American English. You can put it in the pile over there with the miles and pounds and other oddities.

        Other languages have milliard between million and billion, billiard after billion etc.