Look how poor we all are

[Stumuz2]

Have a chuckle looking at how poor relatively we all are!

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

[kenneal - lagger]

Another way of looking at it if Jeff Bezos' wealth alone were shared equally amongst the population of the US everyone would get about $500 each!! And if the wealth of the 400 richest Americans were shared out around the US everyone would get $11,000 each, an untold fortune for many. Rough figures but not far out.

OK much of the wealth is in fairly useless bits of paper and stock holdings but it's still a huge amount of wealth in a few hands and it generally gets bigger each year.

[emordnilap]

Such wealth is extremely silly.

[kenneal - lagger]

Such wealth is extremely silly.

Such wealth is down right obscene and should be made illegal. Speaking as a Tory, of course, who believes that money has to circulate to work for the benefit of society as a whole.

[Stumuz2]

Agreed. The job of any government in any capitalist/free market economy is to break up cartels/monopolies/oligopolies.

Most nations have epically failed to do this with big tech. The results have been really bad for society.

[Lurkalot2]

Such wealth is down right obscene and should be made illegal.

I'm always surprised at just how many people say there's nothing wrong with billionaires having such wealth because they've "earned it or worked for it" . On Adam's least favourite site the forum idiot was saying it's fine for Bezos to have and hoard this wealth but when Bill Gates gives money to charities it's because he has an "agenda" .

[Mark]

Tax-dodging web giants must be tamed - and Rishi Sunak's the man to do it:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... an-it.html

According to The Mail on Sunday anyway....