• TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca
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      7 hours ago

      Owning 1.3T of anything is a hoard by definition. I would be surprised if anyone at any time in history has ever owned a trillion of anything

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        6 hours ago

        So no one is own to own a company? Because that is all his wealth. It’s stock shares.

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              2 hours ago

              it’s crazy to have 1.3T dollars

              somehow =

              it’s crazy to own a business

              what a fucking idiot

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              4 hours ago

              Genuinely asking what’s the difference?

              Like sure liquid $1T would be insane for one person to have, but a $1T company is equally as insane

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                2 hours ago

                A 1 trillion company trading at 350 p/e tells you everything you need to know about how liquid the market would be if he tried to sell it all

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                3 hours ago

                It’s not as insane because there is a significant difference between liquid and illiquid assets in how these can affect the world. However, regardless of how it compares, people owning more than a billion is one more sign our global economic system is very broken (and trillion even more so).