Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums
8 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Fun fact about billionaires. (Original Post)
Buttoneer
Sunday
OP
Bluetus
(340 posts)1. How would we ever survive?
Buttoneer
(705 posts)2. Survive? We'd thrive
Bluetus
(340 posts)3. Not to be a killjoy, but
if anybody wants to debate this "fun fact" literally, we have enough billionaires (they are growing 10% a year) to last us about 4 years at the rate of school shootings.
But if you look at the number of total gun deaths of children and teenagers in the US, then we would run out of billionaires in about 4 months, which is close enough for me.
Buttoneer
(705 posts)4. Ok geek. I'm good. Sacrifice billionaires for school children works for me.
Response to Buttoneer (Reply #4)
PeaceWave This message was self-deleted by its author.
Buttoneer
(705 posts)6. Since when is calling someone a geek an insult?
Bluetus
(340 posts)7. I didn't take offense. I didn't realize I was supposed to. :)
Last edited Mon Dec 30, 2024, 12:30 PM - Edit history (1)
The original post was clever and pithy. I'm just suggesting it would be just as clever and impactful if we lined it up a little better with the real-world data.
Maru Kitteh
(29,261 posts)8. I'm not necessarily against this plan.
Im willing to listen at least.
??? ???