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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Spoliers! You owe it to yourself experience it first without anyone else's comments, it only takes a few minutes.An extremely powerful infographic, well designed and well sourced. I love how after they said everything they said, they leave you to keep scrolling the last third of the 3 trillion. No more commentary, just letting the scale of it sink in.

Though, something I wish they touched on in the infographic itself is rebuking the argument of "all that money is tied up in stocks! they don't have that much money sitting around!" There are plenty of issues with that rebuttal of course and it's not actually a valid defense of the ultra rich, but it's a common enough counter that I think it warrants being mentioned to cover all your bases so to speak.

[–] satrunalia44 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's actually the best argument I read against this. I will be honest, I was thinking the same while scrolling, but this page made me think differently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also, there's another one on the page about prison incarceration in the US, you should check that out as well