how very communist of them
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
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Critical support to People's Billionaires ✊
"But they're okay, because they're controlled by the government"
- Benito Mussolini explaining why his system is not capitalism (but at the same time Tankies after you point out to them that China has a lot of billionaires for being a socialist nation)
thats so much. thank god the USA only have checks notes holy shit, over 900
...In congress? Because China has 539 in total.
Richest member of congress is estimated at $664.2 million
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_by_wealth
But 0 billionaires
There are some billionaire governors, and some of them are paradoxically progressives who call for taxing billionaires. I just think they're afraid of the guillotines coming out and are trying to get out ahead of a revolution they think might be on the horizon.
Note that 100 is not the total number of billionaires China has, just the number of billionaire MPs. According to the Hurun Global Rich List, there are 1021 billionaires in China.
The number of billionaire legislators in the US is zero.
true, the richest person in congress only has 660 mil, what a peasant /s yeah actually a very valid point. although I think its missing the point, that billionaires in the USA have insane amounts of leverage in legislature. just look at the market manipulation musk and trunp are doing and what happened to them. they got even richer.
Oh well in that case, China is above reproach. Thank you for explaining to me why it's ok to ignore 100 Chinese billionaires in parliament!
did I ever say its OK to ignore? where did you get that? I just made a comparison, because the "China bad" thing is getting really old, when its mainly coming from the US, which is getting closer to a failed state every day.
Perspective
A hundred billion airs? What do you even do with all that air?