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There are almost 24M millionaires in the US alone. A millionaire in 2026 honestly isn't all that impressive anymore, thanks to inflation. I'm not saying we should feel sorry for them, just that it's not the instant easy classification that it used to be.
As for billionaires, those should not exist, IMHO. A billionaire is a symptom of a broken economy, not a worthy goal.
Edit: fixed a typo.
Assuming we continue under neobliberalism, eventually those billionaires will become trillionares too.
Or a simple currency re-structure could turn those billionaires back into millionaires overnight without changing their relative wealth at all.
Focusing in the word "billionaire" was, in my opinion, a messaging mistake. I always preferred 1% because it scales, though 0.1% or 0.01% might be better.