• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I want to add on some quick math. Some people will look at this and scoff, saying that actors are millionaires and are more similar to these billionaire leeches than to us. A billion isn’t a number you can easily wrap your head around – I have trouble putting it into the correct perspective and scale, and I’m an engineer. It’s really difficult. So to try and show exactly how much money we’re talking here, I’m going to use time:

    • 35k seconds, 9.7 hours
    • 70k seconds, 19.4 hours
    • 100k seconds, 1.16 days
    • 250k seconds, 2.9 days
    • 1m seconds, 11.6 days
    • 10m seconds, 115.7 days
    • 100m seconds, 3.2 years
    • 1b seconds, 31.7 years

    I haven’t even lived for 1 billion seconds yet, and I’m 28! Even an actor who’s racked up $100m over a successful career is closer to $0 than they are to $1b. Now arguably I’d say $100m is at the point where it needs to be treated similarly to $1b, but even so. The average working adult is closer to an actor in terms of wealth than these disgusting hoarders.

    In reality, every dollar isn’t equal, and what this analysis doesn’t take into account is the amount leftover after all necessities are paid for, which is the reason why someone making $35k is not living like a millionaire. The point here is, a billion is incredibly big. It’s unfathomable. Unless the person protesting is a billionaire, they’re on your side against the leeches and absurdly wealthy.

    (I suspect this is why actors tend liberal and billionaires tend conservative.)