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I saw a post that said “one billionaire could give every American one million dollars and still have enough money to live freely” and I just can’t get that out of my head.
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Anonymous 15w

It might be me, but how does that statement make sense

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Anonymous 16w

I read this thinking it was saying billionaires couldn’t live a free life without holding all their income and assets lol

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Anonymous 15w

Um no. He would only be able to give 1000 people the money before going broke.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 15w

How doesn’t it? If you subtract 343million from even 1 billion…. You would have how many millions left over?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15w

If you want to give 1$ to each of the 343M Americans, then you are correct. If you want to give 1M$ to each one of them, I am afraid you have to revisit your calculations

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