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There's no limits to how rich you can get and these guys said "Challenge Accepted".
There are currently about 3,028 billionaires in the world and according to this website source their combined wealth is $16.1 trillion.
How many countries can boldy call this amount of money their GDP? Yeah not very much. As a matter of fact, there's only 2 nations in the world right now that can make this claim, China and the U.S.
What makes this way more interesting is that this calculation and record of the billionaires was done after the stock market plummeted.
Let’s be honest, watching the richest people on Earth lose billions might seem like karma catching up, some billionaires are loved but a lot of them have haters and like they say "haters gonna hate"
People made memes about Elon Musk's stocks dropping and they were happy about it. Elon actually dropped by $156 billion.
He wasn't the only one hit with the stock market crash, Jeff Bezos also dropped by $29 billion.
I didn’t feel anything for them though, not because I'm a hater, no I actually admire them but because I know exactly how rich these guys are. I wasn’t shocked or sympathetic. These numbers look too big to even feel real to me lol but they are anyways.
And just so you know, those losses didn’t even scratch the surface of their wealth. Elon Musk is still sitting on $342 billion and is still the richest man in the world even after what happened to him.
That’s more than what Finland produces in an entire year. I had to pause when I read that. It’s not the fall that bothers me. It’s how far they still are from hitting the ground, not that I want them too, I'm in absolute awe of the immensity of their wealth.
Is this a good or bad thing? Well it depends on which side you're on.
If you were one of the billionaires and you heard someone protesting billionaires have too much money so government should take it from them, would you agree to it? Hell no, I wouldn't.
It's almost like saying, you're a whale on Hive and the whales have too much money so give up your HP, nobody's going to do that.
If you're on the side of the broke and you feel some billionaires are taking advantage of the system with their money and it's causing problems for you in the country that's where, if you're not rational you start burning Tesla cars and having a demonstration yelling depot Elon Musk.
They literally wrote, "Send Elon to Mars" that's how much hate that man has gotten from America now.
If you wouldn't give up your few thousands of dollars just because someone hates the fact that you have it, what makes you think these billionaires will do so.
We've all heard the saying "Money is Power" these billionaires don't just know this saying, they live it, feel it on a daily basis and understand how good that feels. They know money gives them the power to do what they want, and that's the core desire of everyone, to be able to do anything they desire.
So these billionaires keep stacking. How do we prevent the negative effect of people with too much money in a nation?
It's just like asking how do we prevent a few whales from taking full control over Hive?
Simple, make more whales to a point where no single individual or small group has too much power and too much influence. Millionaires are powerful but their influence is less than it used to be years ago and that's because there's so many of them now.
If you hate the billionaires for what they do, become one and let your friends who share the same opinion with you also become one.
I think it's better to channel the hate or dislike into smart work combined with hard work that'll yield good results for you rather than talking about it.
Whether the stocks go up or down, these billionaires set measures to secure themselves, so should you. So they keep winning.