• Armand1@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Presumably this is satire, as these are clearly not equivalent statements.

    We don’t share limited horsepower, but we do share limited wealth, and it can be redistributed.

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      1 hour ago

      Another minor point of contention: Lamborghini’s are at best 4-5 times faster than a shitbox car. A single-billionaire earns 20 000 times more than the average person. The scales are all out of wack.

      A closer comparison would be the difference between a private jet and a person walking. Even that would only be a 200x difference. A snail and private jet is much closer to that 20 000x difference.

      It’s so absurd a difference I’m scale that the comparison is hard for people to imagine.

      A world where the difference between the average person and the richest people is only as large as a shitbox and a Lamborghini’s speed would be actually be a pretty palatable society to live in.

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      2 hours ago

      A better comparison would be: “I’d perform better at the race if the winners weren’t the ones who made up the rules.”

      Edit: And somehow, they always get out of time penalties.