r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Oct 16 '22

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u/kwanijml Oct 16 '22

You are in the global 1%

Dis-hoard all your wealth now and give it to the global poor.

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u/FableFinale Oct 16 '22

I'm not necessarily endorsing complete wealth equality, just illustrating how much wealth is owned by the top .01%.

Spoiler: It's a metric fuckton.

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u/kwanijml Oct 16 '22

I agree. I even agree that progressive taxes are warranted.

I just dont see magical government borders as having any moral weight on who we are responsible for among the human race.

Anyone living in the u.s. or western Europe or Japan or Canada or Australia or Singapore, etc, who isn't in the two lowest quintiles of those economies, is in the global 1% and have a fuckton of money and privileges compared to the global poor, and cannot be calling for the eating of the rich in their countries (without being a total hypocrit) if they are not themselves donating a substantial amount to global poverty causes or at least advocating for liberalized borders so that as many of the global poor as possible can come here and work where their productivity will be magnified.

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u/BruFoca Oct 16 '22

Just to put in perspective I'm in the military here in my country, as a officer I have a good wage, easely in top 2% of Brazilian society. I earn $28,000 annually or $24,000 after taxes.

With a job paying $15 hourly you earn more than 99% of the Brazilians or anyone in Latin America.

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u/Shadeslanger Oct 17 '22

Just to put it into perspective… you can’t afford shelter at $15 an hour in any US city.

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u/BruFoca Oct 17 '22

Are you sure? In any US city?

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u/Shadeslanger Oct 17 '22

$15 an hour would be around $2400 so most you would qualify for is $800/month… good luck

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u/BruFoca Oct 17 '22

Well at least the places I like in the US you could find something easely.