• addie@feddit.uk
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      8 days ago

      If it’s a Robin Hood story, then presumably it’s full of gold coins rather than dollar bills. Bag’s about the size of his head, call it four litres. Gold has a density about 20 kg / litre and is worth about $100 / gram, so ignoring the fact that you’d struggle to lift that bag, especially in one hand, it would be worth about $8M.

      Still works out to about 0% of their wealth. Time to start taxing the rich.

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      The bag is just a metaphor, the problem is that it was given all to a single person instead of multiple. Since the point is to stop the accumulation of wealth.

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      Make it $100 to be more practical, 5 billion per container. Still over 80 containers for Musk, half of it since 2022 only.