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In a hundred years or so we'll be explaining that it's okay to be a billionaire (lemmy.nz)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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In a hundred and twenty or thirty years or something, the dollar will have inflated by 1000 times, so a billion dollars then will be equal to a million dollars now. It'll cost a billion dollars for a nice four bedroom house.

But we'll have had a hundred more years to produce anti billionaire propaganda, so a lot of people, especially teenagers, will need it explained to them that being a billionaire isn't so bad now. The Marxist-Leninists will all be saying that Cyborg Bernie Sanders is an evil billionaire, and us reasonable leftists will be explaining that a billion dollars is just what it costs these days to own a residence in your home state and also in DC, which is necessary for working as a senator.

What we'll really need to look out for by then is the trillionaires. Good for nothing parasites. There's no excuse for one person to own a trillion dollars while there are people living on the streets who can't even afford a measly ten thousand dollars for a cheeseburger meal.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nice fantasy, the climate of earth will be uninhabitable for human life and I think that will be just neat.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I WOULD find that neat if the planet was uninhabitable for human life only as opposed to most life

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Once the humans are gone, life on the planet will begin to return.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That's not much consolation to everything alive today. I think the existence of life is pretty morally neutral, but the suffering were causing for the life that already exists is inexcusable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

I kind of hope for Nuclear Armageddon that's something the planet can recover from climate on the other hand it's done. But honestly it it maybe to late for it to make a difference.