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2 French billionaires snapped their fingers and raised $300,000,000 for the rebuilding of Notre Dame.
38,000 of us pledged what we could, ranging from $1 to $50,000, in order to raise $2,000,000 to rebuild a few black churches.
That’s what wealth inequality looks like.
38,000 of us pledged what we could, ranging from $1 to $50,000, in order to raise $2,000,000 to rebuild a few black churches.
That’s what wealth inequality looks like.
I am not ungrateful for those rebuilding Notre Dame. I think it’s a priceless piece of architecture. But if it takes 38,000 people to raise 1% of what a couple of billionaires can scrape out of the couch cushions, we’ve got a bigger problem.
I think a lot of us down here in the hundredaire class are unable to even grasp what being a billionaire means, but I think at some point, we need to stop abstracting it, work out the math, and realize that all billionaires are policy failures, full stop.
