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Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Now I need to do the math on space karen/ henery ford 2.0 aka Mr my autism makes me prone to outbursts of fascist apologia.

I did the math recently and if you took the assets of the wealthiest 1% and divided only half of it amongst the remaining 336.3 million Americans it would be a check of approximately 68,000 for every man woman and child and those bloated blood sucking leaches would still have an average remainder of just under 6 million dollars each.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Inflationary as giving everyone a million bucks would be, this was the 90s. $1M would net you a fair retirement.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Google says $1M in 1990 is worth just under $2.5M today. I guess in the 90s houses were worth more like a 20th to a 10th of that rather than the 5th to a 3rd it is today, but I think you'd still have been pretty short sighted to give up working on that kind of windfall.

    Giving every American $1M is not anything like what the original post is talking about. It's talking about taking half of Bezos net worth and giving it to Amazon employees, which equates to maybe 2 years of a shitty wage, and would likely only be deliverable as stock in Amazon. The other point about redistributing some of the 1%s wealth to the wider citizens of the USA again only nets each individual 70k. Noones quitting their job over that and most people will be either be dumping it straight back I to the economy or paying down some debt.

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