It’s a fantastic point, but John Boyega’s net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn’t safe either…
There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao
Not to mention the way the money was made
An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers
This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.
Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.
But like… an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense).
These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different.
The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner.
Put it this way: We, people without a lot of money / living paycheck to paycheck / not paid a living wage, are WAY WAY WAY closer to John Boyega than John Boyega is to Jeff Bezos.
Like if John Boyega is the moon, hard to visit but not impossible, Jeff Bezos is, idk, Alpha Centauri or some shit. We can see him, but we’re never going to get to where he is in our lifetimes.
6 million in assets doesn’t even put you in the top 1%. Will John Boyega get to the 1% (10mil)? Sure he will given that he’s still young and has good earning potential. Will he get to be a billionaire? Nope. Not unless he changes career to “evil capitalist”. 1 billion is 167x more than the 6 million John Boyega has. When Bezos hit a trillion he will have 167000x more than Boyega. Anyone who has over $36 is closer to Boyega than Boyega is to 1 Trillion.
can we just like. Use scientific notation? it makes it MUCH easier to understand the differences
a year’s salary at minimum wage of $7.25: $1.5 x 10^4
one million dollars: $1.0 x 10^6
John boyega’s net worth of $6 million: $6.0 x 10^6
one billion dollars: $1.0 x 10^9 (dr-dendritic-trees was wrong, a billion is THREE orders of magnitude larger than a million, not just one order of magnitude larger like the words ‘million’ and ‘billion’ imply)
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