Aspen Anti-Billionaire Society

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A community dedicated to spreading awareness of the negative impacts of the billionaire class, especially the 250 richest people on the planet

We believe that the existence of the 0.01% comes at a cost to the rest of us, even multi-millionaires, and hope to spread awareness of this problem among the 1% (who have the most resources to affect change)

All discussion and links related to wealth inequality and related activism are welcome. We hope that this community can serve as an easily accessible repository of information about wealth inequality

Please meet disagreement with civility so we can foster productive discourse

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Where Did All Your Money Go? (midwest.social)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by ToastedRavioli@midwest.social to c/aspen_anti_billionaire_society@midwest.social

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See the stickied comment below for an explanation and statement of our purpose, based on simple back-of-the-napkin math

E: if someone could please link this community to r/aspen and r/roaringforkvalley I would greatly appreciate it. I’ve been IP banned by the all powerful AI mod monster, like many folks on Lemmy

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[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Im not debating the granularity of anything, I’m stating a fact that you don’t seem to understand about the gravity of someone having $430B versus $12B versus $100M.

Would you say there is “granularity” in comparing a 36 story skyscraper to a 1 story house? They are inarguably 2 completely different magnitudes of building.

Im being very clear and very honest, by simple plain math someone having $100M is not affecting your life in any way. Literally people make this whole idea of “the 1% have us all turned against each other with culture wars” which is almost all the way correct. The reality is that a handful of fucking people have everyone distracted, and that even the separation between you and someone with $100M is a petty class war from those 250 people’s perspective. People with hundreds of millions are not this evil monster that are any different from you, they hardly have any more money than you in comparison to a multi-billionaire. That is just factual, plain, and honest. Whether you want to accept it is a different story