PAY UP

Noah Silverbrook

Updated Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 12:08 AM CDT

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icouldntthinkofabetterusername2

Once again, mind blowing graph of wealth in pixels: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

Apeofdeath

This is why I love imgur, everyone is doing the math to check

ProfessorD******

I am wondering what 10k currency I was getting 80000 years ago

Smidge204

Pedantic #1: $10K/day for 82,021 years and you'd have ~$50B more than Elon did in 2021, but only if you include leap year days.

politicalwanderer

Time for the government to say "F*** you, pay me" to all the rich people who've been getting away with m***** due to lower taxes on income and capital gains since the 80s.

DangerTrain

Taxing billionaires is the polite and civil option. There's other ways.

vnqx

That's $299B and Forbes assumes he's worth around $256B.

whyforetho

You're Lucy, an early hominid whose skeleton will be discovered 3 million years from now in the late 20th century. Suddenly a time traveler appears and grants you you immortality and a $7.25/hr fulltime job. You never take a day off. You save every last penny you earn. For millions of years. One day a man named Jeff Bezos launches himself into space for 5 minutes. You look at the price tag of his trip. It's ~50% more than what you've earned in your millions of years on this earth slaving away.

Etrigan77

billionaires should not exist.. making that much money should be like reaching the speed of light .. it should just hit and increasingly high tax rate to infinity

TransAutisticMakinFARTsGoBallistic

...um, I'm pretty sure money hadn't been invented back then, but yes, tax the billionaires. 100% estate tax, too.