• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    3 years ago

    I think the better comparison would be the number of billionaires per capita. Say, per million people. Not that this isn’t a good infographic - keep the overall count. But include the per capita as a frequency-of-occurrence stat.

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    3 years ago

    We need an EU wide 100% wealth tay for any wealth over say 15million€. I am willing to negotiate about the second number.

  • Blaubarschmann@feddit.de
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    3 years ago

    Is this based on nationality (defined as: has that nations passport) or billionaires actually living in that country? Because probably many billionaires don’t live in their home country or pay taxes there

    • freebee@sh.itjust.works
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      3 years ago

      The other 2000 billionaires have their residence in Panama, their 5 parent companies in Seychelles and 10 others in Cayman Islands, which in turn own 100 subsidiary companies in Ireland and the Bahamas which in turn own 1000 subsidiary companies in the Netherlands and Delaware, which own and pay their butlers, cars, yachts and jets and on paper they themselves barely earn enough monthly themselves to afford 1 public toilet visit.

    • zcd@lemmy.ca
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      3 years ago

      Even if we had to use a private submarine for each one it would still be worth it

    • Quokka@quokk.au
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      3 years ago

      Be environmentally minded please and follow the three R’s. In this case we simply reuse the same guilotine.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
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      3 years ago

      Shipping tycoons I think. Dunno how they got their wealth but Greece was a fascist dictatorship for quite a while so it stands to reason.

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    3 years ago

    One could title this map “number of potentially exceptional net contributors the their country’s finances”

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      3 years ago

      You can’t be a fucking contributor by stealing the value of work done by those in your employ.