Following on from @Morticia’s post about how Bezos and Musk are obscenely rich and set to become trillionaires - how much is too much? At what point does it become obscene and detrimental to the planet, society and humanity? If you could put a limit on the wealth of people like that, what would that level be?
How much wealth do you think is an acceptable amount?
£500,000
£1,000,000 (1 million)
£2,000,000
£3,000,000
£4,000,000
£5,000,000
£10,000,000
£20,000,000
£30,000,000
£40,000,000
£50,000,000
£100,000,000 (100 million)
£1000,000,000 (1 billion)
£1,000,000,000,000+ (1 trillion+)
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Keep in mind the entire world’s GDP is estimated at ‘just’ 73 trillion.
I’m afraid I can’t find the link to a remembered article but it rather succinctly helped your average man or woman get his or her head around the kind of wealth the obscenely rich have at their fingertips.
It explained that … for every $1 an American can spend … Bezos can spend $88,000
I’ve put 50M, but would be happy with a general consensus of up to 100M.
Since you can buy a ‘dream home’ for about a million, the rest really would be to allow you to live a very comfortable life, with enough left over to help your family, friends, local community etc. You could do a lot of good with 100 million.
I dont think there should be a cap on how much money people can have…I think its a terrible idea. I don’t see being successful and making a lot of money as obscene or greedy not in the least…good luck to people who do well…as long as they pay their taxes.
I would love to win the lottery for the pleasure of giving it away .
I would keep enough to see me and my family comfortable .
That’s how I know there is no God
He knows I would do good with it
If some people look at being a millionaire/ billionaire as being “ successful “ that’s fine…I seriously can’t see the point, I really don’t understand the pattern of thought ,behind wanting to be a millionaire…what’s it all about?..maybe it’s to do with drive and achieving what most in the world think is important…I dunno, I’m just happy that I have what I have…to be honest I couldn’t justify living in such luxury, when there are so many poor and starving people in this world…I admire those who help charities with sharing their vast amount of wealth.
I thank God that money has never been my driving force, each to their own though and all the clever people we have in the world…it takes all sorts to make a world…if these people have made millions through their ideas,etc, they can’t help it,if it’s made them millions can they…
It’s what they do with this money that counts, they have been blessed with it ,I just Hope most do good and help those in desperate need…as any decent human being would do,imo.
There are some extremely clever people in this world, which has made them millions/ billions…to answer the questions, who am I to say how much is to much.
@summer, “nothing wrong with having los of money”
Yeah, maybe, but with bezo’s it is surely the same as a baboon putting
a whole field of mealies under his armpit to stop other baboons from
getting any ??
…I must stay on topic.
