There we have it. It’s just pure envy and punishment. Nothing to do with making poor people better off. Even if you confiscated 100% of their wealth and distributed it, it would come to something like an iPhone each, not a house or even car each.https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1127270688925134849 …
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Adding the top ten in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_by_net_worth … gives $694.3b, or $2123 per capita. iPhone Xs Max 512 GB is US$1449 plus tax. Add AppleCare+ for $299 (to make sure poor people actually have a working phone for a couple of years) and you're up to $1748 plus tax. It's pretty close.
Obviously the phrase "it's like 10 people" in AOC's OP is a figure of speech. Otherwise it wouldn't even include Betsy DaVos, which she mentions as reference point. Richard DeVos used to be the 60th wealthiest person in the U.S. To sum the top 10 is just a bad faith argument.
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But I hear you, you think 30M USD is too low. So according to the Forbes 2019 Billionaires list there are 607 U.S. based billionaires with a total net worth of 3111 billion USD. => Still approx. 10k USD per US capita. Much more than an iPhone.
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