Amanda

At the same rate, you would need to work 10,000 years to earn a billion.

If you spent $1,000 a day, it would take you just 2.7 years to spend a million dollars.

If you spent the same amount a day, it would take you 2,740 years, longer than the Roman Empire existed, to spend $1 billion.

That's what a billion is.

That's what billionaires have.

More money than they could ever ethically make.

More money than they, quite literally, could ever spend in thousands of lifetimes.

Across the world, eight, eight billionaires own the same wealth as 3.6 billion people, half the entire population of the planet.

Eight people.

In America, the top 1% of Americans hold more wealth than the bottom 90%.

In these United States of America, the three wealthiest men, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, all of whom were in the front row of Trump's inauguration and are in the driver's seat of his administration—he has an unprecedented 13 billionaires in his administration—

Those three men own more wealth than the bottom half of America.

More wealth than over 165 million of us.

In America, we have a deeply curated and intentional story that billionaires are the natural result of extraordinary effort, inventive brilliance, and brave risk-taking.

This, my friends, is some bootstrap bullshit.

Take Elon.

Elon Musk, the man purported to despise big government, has netted out a personal individual in-his-pocket profit of $9.2 billion thanks to government subsidies, grants, tax breaks, and contracts to his companies.

Bezos has received more than $15 billion in government subsidies and contracts.

Take the Waltons, who own Walmart.

Walmart pays its more than 1.6 million American workers below a living wage, which means that roughly one in four Walmart employees relies on public assistance, costing the American taxpayers $6 billion a year.