• r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Income and net worth are different concepts though. You can have a car and be too broke to buy gas.

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      I think you might be failing to envision just how much money a billion dollars is. If your net worth (Assets - Liabilities + Equity) = one billion dollars, you are among the wealthiest of the wealthiest people in the world.

      Now, that probably isn’t all just sitting in investments. I’ll be very conservative and say half of it is. If you earned 4% annually on that $500M, which is a pretty decent average, you would gross $20 Million.

      I don’t know about you, but if I had $20 Million, I would never have to work another day for the rest of my life. You see where I’m going with this?

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        4 months ago

        Wouldn’t the $20 Million be subject to the 100% income tax at that point, meaning the net worth billionaire wouldn’t be able to earn any income as it’s all taxed away?

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          1 month ago

          Sure, but let’s say they spent 20m. Then their net worth would be under a billion and the next couple of years of earnings would have a lower tax rate.

          Even if they never were able to make money again, 20m goes into a billion 50 times. They could overspend for 50 years without making a cent on investments.

          I’m sure they’d come up with fun new accounting loopholes though so their assets didn’t appear to increase.