In a hundred and twenty or thirty years or something, the dollar will have inflated by 1000 times, so a billion dollars then will be equal to a million dollars now. It’ll cost a billion dollars for a nice four bedroom house.

But we’ll have had a hundred more years to produce anti billionaire propaganda, so a lot of people, especially teenagers, will need it explained to them that being a billionaire isn’t so bad now. The Marxist-Leninists will all be saying that Cyborg Bernie Sanders is an evil billionaire, and us reasonable leftists will be explaining that a billion dollars is just what it costs these days to own a residence in your home state and also in DC, which is necessary for working as a senator.

What we’ll really need to look out for by then is the trillionaires. Good for nothing parasites. There’s no excuse for one person to own a trillion dollars while there are people living on the streets who can’t even afford a measly ten thousand dollars for a cheeseburger meal.

  • Pyrin
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    A hundred years?

    More like it’s taken at least 50 of our current years, we’re just at the peak. We’re saying, as a society, that hey! You can be a convicted felon AND be president AND suffer almost NO consequences! Hey! You can be the richest person in the world and do whatever the fuck you want without repercussions!

    It’s being normalized, unfortunately, in the now.

  • @droporain
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    Nice fantasy, the climate of earth will be uninhabitable for human life and I think that will be just neat.

    • @[email protected]
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      I WOULD find that neat if the planet was uninhabitable for human life only as opposed to most life

        • @[email protected]
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          That’s not much consolation to everything alive today. I think the existence of life is pretty morally neutral, but the suffering were causing for the life that already exists is inexcusable.

    • @[email protected]
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      I kind of hope for Nuclear Armageddon that’s something the planet can recover from climate on the other hand it’s done. But honestly it it maybe to late for it to make a difference.

  • P_P
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    I a hundred years, society will have collapsed and here may not be any organized human life to be found.

    So, don’t worry about this.

  • @[email protected]
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    In the USA minimum wage will still be 7.25.

    At least it goes up in the U.K., even if it seems to be slowly creating a scenario where everyone is earning minimum wage.

    • Saik0
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      In the USA minimum wage will still be 7.25.

      https://www.minimum-wage.org/wage-by-state

      It’s not that wage now in the vast majority of states.

      Edit: The actual “Average” minimum wage of a US worker is 11.33/hr. Which is a population distribution of minimum wages across all states.

      I am only adding this to show the problem of treating the “federal” minimum wage as a monolithic representation of the USA. It’s not. Stop treating it as if it was.

  • HubertManne
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    yes. in the gilded age it was millionaires and now its billionaires and yes trillionaires are about the corner unless we our society improves. no one should make more than 100x someone else.

  • @[email protected]
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    512 hours ago

    I mean, dragonrider thinks that people will have a billion dollars, and the rich will have a trillion, but dragonrider thinks that the rich will have quadrillions by that point. Maybe dragonrider will even get to start using all those idle game terms like quintillion, or decillion.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)OP
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      Or maybe we’ll have had a revolution and transitioned to a moneyless society based on mutual aid.

      • @[email protected]
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        412 hours ago

        Well now the original premise is being changed… Don’t take away dragonrider’s potential future with tridecanonillion dollars! Sextillion is also a very fun word to say in the halls of power.