• @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0•2 months ago

    History of the world, tbh. First it was hundredaires, then thousandaires, then millionaires, now billionaires. Eventually it will be trillionaires, and so on.

    • @philthi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0•2 months ago

      I mean, you’re not wrong, but it’s worth remembering that the scale of the difference has never been so radical. The wealth gap is wider than it has ever been.

      • @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0•2 months ago

        Is it, though? Is it wider than a king’s wealth versus a serf’s? The scale is different I agree, but is the proportion, really?

        • @infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
          0•2 months ago

          Is it, though?

          It is. A king could have 5,000 serfs and hey that’s a lot of serfs. But it’s nothing compared to tens of billions of dollars in an economy where most people make 35K a year. And serfs were not hot-swappable cogs like workers effectively are today. Losing a serf was a non-fungible, tangible loss.

          It’s apples to oranges comparing medieval feudalism to modern global capitalism, I think it’s folly trying to say one is “better”, but the scale of the latter certainly dwarfs the former into barely perceiveable insignificance.