Mark Zuckerberg lost $119 Billion dollars on the stock market today (7/26/18). This is the largest loss of wealth in a single day in modern stock history.
This will literally not change his lifestyle or effect his livelihood at all. He is still a multi-billionaire.
If I worked every single day, for the rest of my life, at $15/hr - which is more than twice the national minimum wage - I would never make even 1/1000th the amount of just the money that Zuckerberg lost today.
If I worked every single day, for the entirety of the time that anatomically modern humans have existed (200,000 years) - at $15/hr - I would still not make one tenth of the amount of just the money he lost today.
And he is still a billionaire and will lose literally zero luxury or well-being from what happened today.
You want to know how absolutely grotesque modern wealth inequality is?
elon musk’s months-long very public breakdown reached a fresh peak today when he accused one of the divers in Thailand of being a pedophile in response to criticism of his metal death-tube
the greek democracies used to have this mechanism called ‘ostracism’ where everyone would just get real fed up with one particular rich asshole’s shit, someone would call for an ostracism, and everyone would get together and write the dude’s name on a pottery shard, toss it into a container and then have it be tallied up later to determine a yay-or-nay
there didn’t have to be a specific charge, no crime needed to be committed, you just had be such a tremendously unbearable shithead that everyone in the city decided to just officially exile you for ten years and send you packing
we should seriously consider bringing this back it would solve a lot of problems
Exile him to where though? In the modern world where could he be sent to really exclude him from society. Really we’d end up having to help him build a Martian colony, and he’d only win from that
