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over a year ago
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"Anyone think its ludicrous to have over 600 billion?
How could you live a well balanced sensible life? "
It is, especially when there are people in full time work who are still living in poverty and relying on food banks! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Nobody has over 600 billion though.
Those who are super wealthy are mostly paper billionaires as it is all based on share values "
I was picturing msnsions.. Built from gold bars  |
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"Anyone think its ludicrous to have over 600 billion?
How could you live a well balanced sensible life? "
What you mean a life where you never have to think can I aford that? or where is the money coming from to pay the bills?
BRING IT ON!!!!!  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Who has 600 billion? Bill gates hasn't 100 billion dollars. He's the richest"
Some bloke i haven't seen before. It's on sky news about more billionaires living in the uk. |
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By *rwolfMan
over a year ago
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We live in a world ruled by money..
Capable of getting oil across entire continents but cant get water to third world countries.
Nurses using food banks and politicians eating out on paid expenses.
In today's day and age even cash is slowly becoming more redundent as we use contactless and debit cards more often..
Look at the system itself, a bank can immediately generate a mortgage, loans, overdrafts out of thin air based on points, and yet we are told the mint is responsible for generating money...
There are dozens of companies looking to change how we perceive the world...look tesla for example, revolutionary solar roofing tiles, batteries that would remove a house from the grid...yet its not being pushed because after 24 hours the house is not just independent but paying back into the grid....not being pushed because 0 profit of electric companies. The world we live in is so arse backwards its unbelievable and the sooner people like the Rothschilds are removed from it the better.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Anyone think its ludicrous to have over 600 billion?
How could you live a well balanced sensible life?
What you mean a life where you never have to think can I aford that? or where is the money coming from to pay the bills?
BRING IT ON!!!!! "
Well you'd get fed up of caviar for all your meals, cars made of gold, gold toilets, champagne filled swimming pools etc |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Who has 600 billion? Bill gates hasn't 100 billion dollars. He's the richest
Some bloke i haven't seen before. It's on sky news about more billionaires living in the uk."
Think you are mistaken |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"We live in a world ruled by money..
Capable of getting oil across entire continents but cant get water to third world countries.
Nurses using food banks and politicians eating out on paid expenses.
In today's day and age even cash is slowly becoming more redundent as we use contactless and debit cards more often..
Look at the system itself, a bank can immediately generate a mortgage, loans, overdrafts out of thin air based on points, and yet we are told the mint is responsible for generating money...
There are dozens of companies looking to change how we perceive the world...look tesla for example, revolutionary solar roofing tiles, batteries that would remove a house from the grid...yet its not being pushed because after 24 hours the house is not just independent but paying back into the grid....not being pushed because 0 profit of electric companies. The world we live in is so arse backwards its unbelievable and the sooner people like the Rothschilds are removed from it the better.
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Actually.. On a serious note yes. I fully agree. Staggering inequality !
People starve while others brag about hoards stoared away as a status symbol. Repugnant.. Stomach churning in fact
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Anyone think its ludicrous to have over 600 billion?
How could you live a well balanced sensible life?
It is, especially when there are people in full time work who are still living in poverty and relying on food banks!"
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By *rwolfMan
over a year ago
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"We live in a world ruled by money..
Capable of getting oil across entire continents but cant get water to third world countries.
Nurses using food banks and politicians eating out on paid expenses.
In today's day and age even cash is slowly becoming more redundent as we use contactless and debit cards more often..
Look at the system itself, a bank can immediately generate a mortgage, loans, overdrafts out of thin air based on points, and yet we are told the mint is responsible for generating money...
There are dozens of companies looking to change how we perceive the world...look tesla for example, revolutionary solar roofing tiles, batteries that would remove a house from the grid...yet its not being pushed because after 24 hours the house is not just independent but paying back into the grid....not being pushed because 0 profit of electric companies. The world we live in is so arse backwards its unbelievable and the sooner people like the Rothschilds are removed from it the better.
Actually.. On a serious note yes. I fully agree. Staggering inequality !
People starve while others brag about hoards stoared away as a status symbol. Repugnant.. Stomach churning in fact
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Lets not forget that every year we have bono, bob geldof, lenny henry on our screens asking the lower working classes to donate a few quid to help...where they could donate a percentage of their fortunes and it would make a bigger impact than granny ethels £3 from her pension fund.
Then on the flip side of the coin, bill gates, a man who takes his yearly tax amount, doubles it and donates it to charities.
Elon musk, who is pushing more and more for electronic cars to be taken seriously.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Anyone think its ludicrous to have over 600 billion?
How could you live a well balanced sensible life?
It is, especially when there are people in full time work who are still living in poverty and relying on food banks!
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More billionaires coming to the uk is disconcerting.. Doesn't look good image wise for the uk. Tax haven? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Anyone think its ludicrous to have over 600 billion?
How could you live a well balanced sensible life? "
Yes. There should be a cap on what money people can have. The rest should be put back into making society a better place. Nobody and I mean nobody, should be allowed to sit in that kind of cash. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Anyone think its ludicrous to have over 600 billion?
How could you live a well balanced sensible life?
What you mean a life where you never have to think can I aford that? or where is the money coming from to pay the bills?
BRING IT ON!!!!!
Well you'd get fed up of caviar for all your meals, cars made of gold, gold toilets, champagne filled swimming pools etc"
Where now one man's caviar maybe a fishcake. ..the car is a falling apart pair of shoes and just to have a roof over their head would be their heaven  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Who has 600 billion? Bill gates hasn't 100 billion dollars. He's the richest
Apparently the Rothschilds family have a combined wealth of over $600 billion."
Between 10,000 !! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I don't think anyone has the right to tell me how much money I'm allowed accumulate in the same way I have no right to tell them how they should spend theirs,,  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't think anyone has the right to tell me how much money I'm allowed accumulate in the same way I have no right to tell them how they should spend theirs,, "
You don't spend it.....you shoplift  |
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"I don't think anyone has the right to tell me how much money I'm allowed accumulate in the same way I have no right to tell them how they should spend theirs,,
You don't spend it.....you shoplift "
That's how I'm rich...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't think anyone has the right to tell me how much money I'm allowed accumulate in the same way I have no right to tell them how they should spend theirs,,
You don't spend it.....you shoplift
That's how I'm rich...... "
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By (user no longer on site)
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If it makes them happy, good for them. I know somebody who whilst not a billionaire, is worth a million or four and is one of the most miserable buggers around. If that's what it does for you I'll stick with what I've got thanks. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Anyone think its ludicrous to have over 600 billion?
How could you live a well balanced sensible life?
It is, especially when there are people in full time work who are still living in poverty and relying on food banks!
More billionaires coming to the uk is disconcerting.. Doesn't look good image wise for the uk. Tax haven? "
Actually it is the opposite. Billionaires with business in the UK attract more if the same. Generally equals more job and business opportunities.
To put this in context. There are 134 billionaires in the UK out if a population of over 60 million.
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By (user no longer on site)
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For me the most desirable aspect of being super rich would be it provides that individual with a sustainable option to engage in philanthropy....
Having a cap on the amount of money individuals are allowed to accumulate only serves to transfer the dispersal of any excess funding they are capable of raising into the hands of unaccountable administrations who will spend it on decisions made by committee....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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What would be exciting anymore?
You go on loads of holidays... the novelty wears off.
You play golf every day... the novelty wears off
You buy every car you ever wanted... again the novelty wears off
I'm more than happy still having goals and dreams. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg Tom Monaghan 3 examples of super rich individual whose zest for life continues to be fuelled using their wealth to help millions of people all over the world achieve healthy and productive lives. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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That kind of money means nothing, they don't even physically have it, it's tied up in stuff that is only worth what someone else is willing to trade them for it, until the point where it is traded for something of equal or higher value to the seller then it is worthless unless it is being used and enjoyed (there is no price on useful and enjoyable).
I can tell everyone I've got a million pounds worth of beads, on paper id be a millionaire but until some schmuck is willing to give me a million pounds for it, it's just a worthless pile of beads. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"What would be exciting anymore?
You go on loads of holidays... the novelty wears off.
You play golf every day... the novelty wears off
You buy every car you ever wanted... again the novelty wears off
I'm more than happy still having goals and dreams. "
Bill Gates wants to use his fortune to help eradocate diseases such as malaria. I'd say that was worth getting out of bed for.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"What would be exciting anymore?
You go on loads of holidays... the novelty wears off.
You play golf every day... the novelty wears off
You buy every car you ever wanted... again the novelty wears off
I'm more than happy still having goals and dreams.
Bill Gates wants to use his fortune to help eradocate diseases such as malaria. I'd say that was worth getting out of bed for.
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Exactly..
You'd have to be very naïve to imagine capping his wealth and handing control of any excess to the hands of government committee decision makers would result in a more valuable distribution of that wealth for humanity  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"What would be exciting anymore?
You go on loads of holidays... the novelty wears off.
You play golf every day... the novelty wears off
You buy every car you ever wanted... again the novelty wears off
I'm more than happy still having goals and dreams.
Bill Gates wants to use his fortune to help eradocate diseases such as malaria. I'd say that was worth getting out of bed for.
Exactly..
You'd have to be very naïve to imagine capping his wealth and handing control of any excess to the hands of government committee decision makers would result in a more valuable distribution of that wealth for humanity "
Unfortunately most billionaires won't do this.
I appreciate he's a rare example |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"What would be exciting anymore?
You go on loads of holidays... the novelty wears off.
You play golf every day... the novelty wears off
You buy every car you ever wanted... again the novelty wears off
I'm more than happy still having goals and dreams.
Bill Gates wants to use his fortune to help eradocate diseases such as malaria. I'd say that was worth getting out of bed for.
Exactly..
You'd have to be very naïve to imagine capping his wealth and handing control of any excess to the hands of government committee decision makers would result in a more valuable distribution of that wealth for humanity
Unfortunately most billionaires won't do this.
I appreciate he's a rare example "
Many rich people in the public domain use their money and influence to help promote the plight of those in need....I find it hard to imagine equally as many rich people who live a more private don't provide similar support and finance toward that end...
Associating wealth creation with greed or selfish behaviour is a folly of those seeking to unnecessarily devalue the contribution of affluent people who are trying to help.....
There are rich people who don't feel inclined to help others but proportionally that will be a reflection directly comparable to the rest of society |
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"Anyone think its ludicrous to have over 600 billion?
How could you live a well balanced sensible life? "
It's worth remembering that to calculate a "billion" in the true accounting sense, in the UK, it used to be " 1 million x 1 million" .
The U.S. calculates a million, as a 1 thousand x 1 million".
Nowadays, the UK has adopted the U.S. version, and as someone else said, most of the net worth at this extreme level, is perceived value, or shares of companies, as the markets dictate.
At that level, of perceived or actual worth,
"being sensible" it's irrelevant. It's simply what other people do. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Cap the wealth someone can accumulate and you take away the incentive for earning it.
If you don't earn it, you can't pay taxes on it, you can't be philanthropic with it and you can't spend it.
Why stay in a country that does that to you? |
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I think that amount of money could be a burden for some, but I imagine if you have the wherewithal to accumulate such vast wealth each day must be an exciting challenge still.
I admire not envy those who still strive to make a difference despite their wealth.
Good for them...why should wealth be capped? |
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"Cap the wealth someone can accumulate and you take away the incentive for earning it.
If you don't earn it, you can't pay taxes on it, you can't be philanthropic with it and you can't spend it.
Why stay in a country that does that to you? "
Exactly |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Who has over £600 billion?
As the richest person in the world, Isn't bill gates net worth £85 billion? "
I think they are referring to the rothschilds who have an accumulated worth of 600 billion as a family |
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