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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 month ago

I think it'd be better when adjusted for GDP.

China gdp: $17.96 trillion

China has 1 billionare / $25.73 billion GDP or 1 billionare / $18.22 GDP / capita

US gpd: $27.94 trillion

US has 1 billionare / $38.59 billion GDP or 1 billionare / $114.88 GDP / capita

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Ohhhh numbers. Very yummy.

[-] FiniteBanjo 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wouldn't a lower number of billionaires to a higher amount of profits be more favorable to everyone except billionaires? So that particular example actually favors the system in the USA, oddly.

Of course, GDP only accounts for excess goods and services sold to other nations, which for the USA includes financial services like trading platforms and exchanges, heavily skewing their actual production capacity.

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I think so, yeah. Also, billionaire means anything more than 1 billion, right? It might help to look at how much wealth they actually have; for example, if one nation has 1 billionaire (with $30 billion) and another has 30 billionaires (each with $1 billion), I wouldn't argue that the former is especially better off.

[-] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know, seems better to have 1 money hoarding asshole than 30...

[-] enleeten@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago

Hell / yeah / brother

this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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