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How much is Kamala Harris worth? It’s millions—but the source isn’t politics (fortune.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/economy

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The funny thing is how quickly "millionaire" has become a meaningless term.

iirc in the 1989 Batman movie Bruce Wayne is still described as a 'millionaire.' By 2004 he was a 'billionaire.'

At this point, anyone with a house could come up with $1 million.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Also she’s from the Bay Area, every house starts at a million. So just owning a home in the area she lived and worked in would make her a millionaire by default. It’s such a bad metric.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I think it was Isaac Asimov who wrote that we use 'astronomical' to describe vast amounts, but that eventually we'd replace 'astronomical' with 'financial'