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[–] zepheriths 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This says where it is nicer for wealthier people to live. Apparently it's a nightmare to be wealthy in China but in Australia it must be pretty good

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

Where do you think the rich people from China are going?

[–] zepheriths 2 points 1 year ago

~~gulag~~ just about everywhere they feel like. I would imagine wealthy families are going to places with good education.

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

Yes, and if this map is true it'd also be interesting because it counters the common argument that our countries aren't welcoming enough to the "job creators", but i wouldn't know how to explain that, e.g., China lets this happen, the full implications, and a lot of other things not told in that simple map.
It seems at first view like another illustration of the unfairness of neoliberalism(, not only a brain drain, but a capital drain as well).

[–] zepheriths 3 points 1 year ago

I mean that's why I tried to be vague about it as possible. What would be more interesting is to seen intra county movment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GOD i hate the millionairs moving to Portugal. They are the most useless pieces of meat on this planet, they dont have to worry about money, they just spend their rest of they life having vacation in their big mansions while people beg on the streets of these tourist hot-spots where they are located

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Millionaires is such a useless word. Someone who owns a small run down house in San Francisco is a millionaire, someone who owns their own small business is most likely a millionaire, and so on, millionaire is a world away from billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ten millionaire then?

[–] anewbeginning 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One shudders to imagine the reasons why a billionaire would elect a desert like the uae to live in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You’re not in a desert, you’re in a megalopolis that’s filled with every single luxury known to man. You could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a day, and do everything known to man.

A rich person is never bored in the UAE, especially when everything is being done for them by literal slaves.

[–] ShittyRedditWasBetter 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good regional food in a dense city, ease of access to international flight paths, ease of access to Eastern capital, great education. Lots of good reasons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s such a vast gulf between millionaires and billionaires that I’m not sure how great this is. Also, the changing relative value of currency to the US seems to alter these numbers (see Russia)

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

I’d say 1000 millionaires = 1 billionaires as a rough estimate. So this chart tracks the movement of 22.1 billionaires, out of the 1700 total billionaires present.

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

Not sure what the details are but my understanding is that China essentially doesn't let its bourgeois run away with their money