When I see western leftist complain that billionaires don't need billions, they should share

@Charity There wouldn't be equality - as we aren't all equal in ability, talent, intelligence, drive, propensity for sacrifice, ambition, temperament, geographic location etc :)

@Therealsteve I didn't say that everyone would have the same equal mental or physical capabilities.

Equality as referring to treatment of others / as referring to sharing with all / as referring to no rich no poor but evenly distributed.

Equality as referring to no homeless / no one hungry / no one going without clothing / clean water



The sarcasm you just tried to use needs adjustment.

@Jackaloftheazuresand Thank you for sharing this! :)

@Therealsteve It's not a one size fits all. Do what works for you.

@MoveAlong There is some sort of alternate reality wherein spending $200 on a phone that facilitates the same necessities as the $1000 phone doesn't save you $800?

And absolutely, do what works for you and don't pretend that the consequences of your choices are the fault of someone else being more successful than you.

@SunshineGirl Just needed a little break between doing my two degrees.

@Therealsteve Lmao

Number sense...the ability to understand relative sizes of numbers.

The national median family income in the US in 2024 was

$83,730/yr

per https://theworlddata.com/median-family-income-in-us/

When we speak of "billionaires", we are often referring to top US billionaires, but here is a current list from Forbes of the top 25 in the world:

The Real-Time Billionaires List

Rank Name ________Net Worth__Daily Δ
_1____Elon Musk____$466.6B___▼$16.1 B|-3.35%
_2____Larry Ellison__$269.0B___▼$11.3 B| -4.06%
_3____Jeff Bezos____$248.4B___▼$5.8 B| -2.30%
_4____Larry Page____$230.0B___▼$6.4 B| -2.72%
_5____Sergey Brin___$213.3B___▼$5.9 B| -2.71%

_6____Mark Zuckerberg_$209.3B_▲$0.2 B| +0.14%
_7____Bernard Arnault & family_$190.0B_▼$2.9 B|-1.55%
_8____Jensen Huang__$162.3B___▼$5.9 B| -3.54%
_9____Steve Ballmer__$152.3B___▼$1.9 B| -1.29%
10____Warren Buffett_$151.9B___▲$2.7 B| +1.82%

11____Michael Dell___$140.3B___▼$4.9 B| -3.41%
12___Amancio Ortega_$128.3B__▼$1.9 B| -1.53%
13___Rob Walton & family_$122.8B_▼$0.8 B| -0.67%
14___Jim Walton & family_$120.1B_▼$0.8 B| -0.68%
15___Alice Walton____$111.4B___▼$0.8 B| -0.72%

16___Mukesh Ambani_$111.0B___▼$0 B| -0.03%
17___Michael Bloomberg_$109.4B_$0
18___Carlos Slim Helu & family_$107.1B_▼$0.6 B| -0.60%
19___Bill Gates______$103.5B___▼$0.1 B| -0.17%
20___Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family_$87.0B_▲$0.4 B| +0.55%

21___Julia Koch & family_$81.2B__$0
22___Changpeng Zhao_$79.4B___▲$0 B| +0.00%
23___Zhong Shanshan__79.1B___▼$1.3 B| -1.68%
24___Thomas Peterffy__$78.4B___▼$6.1 B| -7.30%
25___Charles Koch & family_$73.8B_$0


The LOWEST person/family on that list has

73.8 G$

if you use the SI prefixes.

If all of that were in CDs getting 5% APR, compounded daily, over 30 days, there'd be MONTHLY interest of

73.8 G$ * { [1+ (.05/365)]^30 - 1}
= 73.8 G$ * { [1.000136986...]^30 ‐ 1}
= 73.8 G$ * { 1.00411776 ‐ 1}
= 73.8 G$ * { 4.11776E(-3) }
= 0.303891 G$
or

304 M$ for the 3 significant figures given

If you consider tithing by the median family, that would be

($83,730/yr * (1 yr/12 mo) * 0.1 tithe)
= $697.75/mo or let's say 0.698 k$ per median family

So that would take

304 M$/(0.698 k$/family)
= 304,000 k$/(0.698 k$/family)
= 435,530 median income families
or about 436 k-families of median income.

The pooling of the tithes from all of those families is nowhere near the interest tge 25th richest guy can make at a crappy rate of interest.

That's awareness of number sense.

@SomeMichGuy "lmao" not all of us live in the US, so I don't care for your numbers. Also, "look how much these billionaires have!". So?

@Alyosha Your reply plays into an interesting theme. Interesting in how it falls into what was taught in my degree that covers populational health and the cultural attitudes towards various medical models.