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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I'd want the powers of the Jessica Jones villain played by David Tennant where you can make anyone do anything. But instead of using it to rape and shit I'd make rich people turn their homes into homeless shelters and give their wealth away and I could just walk out of any bank or store with whatever I wanted.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    turn their homes into homeless shelters

    Ok, so now you've sheltered 500 people, say 10 to a room. I suppose that's nice for them, what about the other 770k in the US?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    There are 750 billionaires in the US. I get your point about them not having enough real estate to host 1000 persons each, but usually, people considerably underestimate how many billionaires there are and how much they're worth.

    They wouldn't have to give up their home to shelter 770k people. They could to it with less than 1% of their combined wealth.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    That, and my definition of wealthy encompasses more than just billionaires. I'd include centimillionaires, at least.

    Edit: the best info I can find says there are about 65k centimillionaire households.

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