>>213013137Yeah, Larry and Jerry both got like half a billion dollars for syndication deals over 25 years ago. And now Jerry has OVER a billion dollars. Wealth just keeps generating wealth super fast. I saw on wikipedia the list of who makes what in a year, and Oprah won like 5 years in a row with around $250 million each time. The last entry said Dr. Dre won his year with $650 million. Michael Jordan is a billionaire. I remember seeing this quote in Sports Illustrated in the early 90s where Jordan said "Give me 50 million dollars and I'll disappear off the face of the Earth." And I didn't know exactly what that meant, only that it was considered an exorbitant amount of money at the time even for multiyear sports contracts on his level. Back then Bill Gates was the richest guy and he was probably barely a billionaire. Now there are tons of celebrity billionaires. Adam Sandler is probably a billionaire. The wealth disparity is so fucked. They're living on a scale so, so far beyond us 99%, and just playing with more and more exponentially accruing wealth by already having vast wealth. What if people with $40,000 jobs could in two years be making $65,000? But it doesn't work like that. For a lot of people it's been going backwards. When you're a multimillionaire you have to go out of your way to fuck up to lose money. No one can take it away but stupid investments. Anyone who works a job is at any moment at risk of losing it.
