• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    A bank account with one million dollars can be completely wiped at any time. This could happen by American healthcare cost due to illness or an accident, or a lawsuit from something like a handyman slipping on your property. A billion dollars wouldn’t even feel it.

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      By some measures, Musk’s decisions managing Twitter/X should earn him one million lifetimes of homelessness.

      I know no one personally who would remain secure after losing billions of dollars, yet I keep hearing that owners take all the risks and workers are always protected from hardship.

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        With all the layoffs we see, that is fucking bullshit. The workers get shafted even when they are doing a good job because of dumb fucks c-suite gambling the company on bullshit technology, or simple cutting costs for the shareholders.

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          Arguably, housing should be accessible without toiling to make a rich person less unhappy and more wealthy.