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I also agree with the top comment and with your comment too. It's settled then?
When?
Eh, I'm in Australia, where the problem's not that big, so I certainly don't feel any overwhelming pressure. While it's different from wealth, the top income bracket threshold went from $180,000 to $190,000 between 2008 and 2024, despite inflation making that $180,000 equivalent to $270,000 in the meantime, even under right-wing governments. And all working Australians have superannuation, sometimes considerable sums. So things here at least are fine. But anyone in the US, sure, get off your butts and go do something. Here even the most despised billionaire is about as rich as she was back in 2012, and there's at least some good evidence of her philanthropy. Australia's in 9th place for wealth inequality apparently. The United States is 25th... from the bottom. That's guillotine, or give your money away, territory.
None of that means that I won't ask Americans to do something about it, I mean your hideous wealth inequality is affecting us too.
Is she the one that had her portrait painted and asked the art gallery to take the picture down? Iirc, the artwork was made with a grid showing multiple portraits, of people that had positive, but also negative, influence in the artist's life.
~~Anyway~~
Edit: i forgot what i intended to write, sigh