A Boring Dystopia

Dragonslayer is an occupation that needs a comeback

Elon is not an American.

What people often forget about trickle-down economics is that wealth only trickles down to named beneficiaries

That's not liquid money though. For each one, the figures mostly represent stock in their own companies which they couldn't pull out without crashing the value. Musk's wealth in particular is mostly air. At least the other two have profitable companies that actually function. In any case, much of it's not real money we could pull out of the bank and spread around. (But we could tax the fucking snot out of them and spread that around!)

But even if they were "only" worth a few 10's of billions, the real issue is that they own the government. And Zuckerberg and Musk own a monster chunk of our social media, control our opinions.

tl;dr: It's not real money and the problem is influence, not total wealth.

This is so disgusting.

Not to mention that the top owner owns more than the second and third combined...

478 billion for Musk. Happily he found a way to destroy money as effectively as possible by building the biggest rockets ever and let them explode over and over again.

Roughly speaking, if you murdered and seized their wealth by liquidating their assets at current value, that's like... 6k donation to half of the US.

That's assuming 50% of about 340m people with big economic assumptions that won't hold up, but fun to think about. It's not a ton of money even then, but it'd probably do more for everyone than under some dragon. Course, we could also just tax them a large amount like we used to, which accomplishes the same thing without the murder.

Can someone do the math for me... If theoretically that was all liquid and those 3 got Thanos snapped with the money redistributed, how much would each American get?

robber barrons 2.0

this appears roughly 1/3 of the third richest person is more wealthy than the bottom 50%

Well, only on paper. Someone actually has to buy their shares first.

The only peaceful way I see wealth being redistributed is if Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg use regulatory capture to reform government in order to raise their own taxes. Such a scale of philanthropy hasn't been seen since the robber barons Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller donated to build libraries and improve public education. Had those Guilded Age monopolists they also used their wealth to compel the US's legislative branch to raise taxes, bolster anti-trust laws, and prevent the acceptance of consumer welfare doctrine over plain anti-monopoly policy, then I'd argue their donations to improve public education would have gone much farther.

That said, plenty of non-peaceful ways exist much like there are many ways for an iceberg to flip over.

And this graph is old, isn’t it? Their wealth is snowballing rapidly, hence Larry Ellison is at $250B now.

Cannot wait for the next big solar flare that destroys all online servers of Fakebook and shAmazon. All this money will actually turn out to be a fake bubble...