A Boring Dystopia

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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We’re having a pizza party with 100 guests! Let’s divvy up the slices the way wealth is divided among American households.

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[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

families in the top 10 percent of the distribution held 60 percent of all wealth

families in the top 1 percent of the distribution held 27 percent

one trillion = 1,000 billions

~$2 trillion in 5 people: Elon, Larry page, Sergey Brin, Jeff bezos, Larry Ellison https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/

5 people own 10% of the wealth?

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That sounds closer to the numbers I know of