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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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The top 50 billionaires could pool 99% of their wealth without it changing their quality of life at all, and have enough money to quite literally solve most of the world's problems. We're talking trillions of dollars that could be put to use for good.
They don't because that's not how psychopaths work.
Billionaire -> max 9 billions Multiply by 50 that's a maximum of 450 billion dollars.
Trillion not reached.
.... 10 billion dollars is still a billionaire. Or is this a comment that nobody has 10 billion dollars?
Or is maybe this a misread of the OP? By "pool 99 percent of their wealth" they mean the other direction. As in the billionaires keep at most 10 billion and the rest goes to better the world.
So the word tenbillionaire and hundredbillionaire was just a meme?
Yeah. Not a word. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenbillionaire