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It's not arbitrary, though. It's called wealth disparity and it's a real thing. Yes there's fewer than 500 billionaires, does that make it more acceptable or less that they have billions of dollars and the average income is $52k?

You don't seem to have any grasp of why this is a problem, let alone how to begin to deal with it.



I was just saying that your 19,230:1 ratio was arbitrary. You could just as easily have made it 192,300:1 by choosing 10x billionaires (of which there appear to be 41) instead of just billionaires. Or you could have made it 1,923:1 by choosing 100x millionaires (dunno how many of those there are I'm gonna guess 10k or so).

On the other side of the line that 52k $ is arbitrary. Why is "average income in the US" the relevant #? I bet the average income in Detroit is lower. Or what about average african american income which is surely lower than that? I bet there are people in Detroit who earn essentially no money? Surely that number is relevant when talking about a wealth disparity ratio.

I was just saying that there are much much much better measures of wealth disparity than the #s you came up with.




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