• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    As of 2024, 806 people in the US control as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the population.

    If every one of those billionaires has 10 billion dollars, thats equivalent to about 165 million people who each have ~49,000.

    (EDIT: Each of) those 806, ten-billionaires then have ~204,082x as much wealth as any of those 165 million people.


    However, I believe I can solve this problem for a fairly low cost.

    Assuming each ten billionaire has approximately 10 close friends/relatives…and we want to just be super duper sure the problem is solved, so we’ll buy 100 of those uh, investment options, per social contagion vector…

    That works out to a total cost of around ~$310,000.

    Split between those 165 million people, that’s one fifth of a cent, per person.

    Does anyone want to guess what my special purpose investment vehicle to achieve said disruption of the malignent social contagaion market is?

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      17 hours ago

      where do you find pinatas for under five large? like, i wouldn’t trust someone asking that little for a pinata. i’d assume they had, i dunno, smuggled drugs in the pinata and were trying to frame me to the fbi

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        16 hours ago

        Uh… pinatabroker?

        Failing that, your city or town probably has a pawn shop.

        They probably feature pinatas for sale, from time to time.

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            14 hours ago

            … Just get a legally licensed pinata?

            And then learn how to have a pinata party that is fully invite only, and leaves no mess behind, then goes home and back to their business?

            The uh, recent bad pinata party that’s been in the news?

            Dude got away.

            The FBI has literally nothing on this person, aside of some basically useless, shitty footage, of a POI, not even a suspect.

            This person is … pinata party capable, and just… at large.

            They have no idea who he is, where he is.