Witnessing a few (organic??!!) convos between liberals lamenting how "left leaning" billionaires don't organize, and help save democracy.
Newsflash: People who pursue money to the point of becoming billionaires simply do not "lean left."
Lots of folks don't realize this because: Corporately owned media (and the PR flaks who surround billionaires)
1) are really- unlikely to explain how much a billion dollars of personal wealth is. It's an obscene amount.
2) know that spinning a stories about "heroic" billionaires protects their clients and their own jobs.
There -may- be a few left leaning ultra wealthy/millionaires...
But ALL billionaires exploit. Full stop.
Billionaires exploit in order to **climb up hierarchies of wealth.**
Both billionaires and right wingers LIKE and believe in hierarchy based living. It's really about that simple.
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It is a helpful way to visualize it ...
I recently saw "a million seconds is about 12 days, a billion seconds is about 31 years."
Also, just found a compilation of different ways to try to wrap minds around the differences:
buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/peop…
People Are Struggling To Comprehend How Much More Money A Billionaire Makes Than A Millionaire
Krista Torres (BuzzFeed)