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Tax the Billionaires, they'll be fine (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

If the billionaire wants to continue growing with inflation it reduces to them getting 20 million a year which translates to 400 thousand a year both matching 3% inflation.

I didn't follow this part

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    5% investment returns keeping up with 3% inflation leaves 2% to do with as you please. 2% of 1 billion is 20 million, and 2% of 20 million is 400 thousand. In this scenario each of those dollar numbers increases by 3% each year to match the expected inflation of normal times

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I must have lost the thread; why are we doing 2% of what a billion dollars' earnings earn?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    To show how ludicrous an amount of money it is. That sustainable harvesting of it gives an annual amount of money that any reasonable person would consider set for life, and then to show what that looks like, because it's not a "well if you live within your means you can retire young" amount, it's an annual amount that people who make it can budget wisely and retire young on. That vast fortune is every year's return on investment for a billionaire.

    To frame it differently, it's to express just how ludicrous the amount of money you gave for the annual return is, because even that number is so big people don't really get it.

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