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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
To put a billionaire in perspective, it's more interesting to think about the income than the capital. You can get a 5% annual return from some fairly low-risk investments (and you can further reduce risk by spreading your money across a load of these). You can often get higher, but 5% is a fairly good baseline.
If you start with $1bn and do nothing clever, you can get an income of $50 M per year by doing nothing. Even with the kind of 95% tax rate that we had for the highest income levels when The Beatles sang about it, that leaves you with $2.5M/year in income.
That's enough to buy a nice house every year, with no mortgage. It's a disposable income of almost $7K. It's enough to take a first-class transatlantic flight every day.
And that's just one billion.
Even with a 95% tax rate on investment income and a conservative investment strategy, someone with a billion dollars would have a daily disposable income that's more than the monthly income of anyone in the bottom 99% of earners, without having to work.
Now try these calculations again with real tax rates and Musk or Bezos' wealth.
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Skintight Chee
SkintightChee@rubber.socialFinishing up Ace Week with something skintight and shiny! 🖤 🤍 💜 Wonderful arts by @krd
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Botch Frivarg
deetwenty@todon.nl🖤🩶🤍💜
(photo taken by friend, edit by me)
Fursuit: Sarah Cat Fursuits (https://www.sarahcatfursuits.com/ )
Photo taking Friend: @miifoxÂ
#SarahCatSunday #Fursuit #Furry #Photography #Inflatable
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Charlotte 
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charlotte
if you put a cast iron skillet into a dishwasher, you have a skillet issue
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LunaticWorkshop
LunaticWorkshop@meow.socialShow content
the day ran away from me and i forgot to post yesterday ^^; Â The prompt was pegging!Â
I'm currently working on "stuck in a wall" gonna be a little different than intended but interesting! any predictions? ;3
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️
foone@digipres.clubA DC power barrel jack on a device that doesn't indicate polarity, voltage, or current SHOULD BE ILLEGAL
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miifox
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me: 16mm camera, large formats, sbeets, plates (!)...
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Jason Scott
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The Archive is back! (In read only mode). Get to the things you love, and we will continue our quest to be dependable, clean up the mess left behind, and be there for you.
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YellowDog
yellowdog@meow.socialShow content
A late celebration of 28 years of KDE (which was exactly last week), I drew both Konqi designs. New Konqi designed by Tyson Tan.
Made possible by my Patreon backers: patreon.com/artbyyellowdog
#art #digitalart #konqi #kde
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Soatok Dreamseeker
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@charlotte if every type is ur type
SlutScript
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Charlotte /Cinny
charlotte
see the solution to top vs bottom bed space is to simply have the top sleep on top of the bottom. it’s in the name
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Charlotte /Cinny
charlotte
WUBE releases expansion for factorio,
engineering globally is going to shut down for a few weeks
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️
foone@digipres.clubevery time I see someone repair a laptop and it's got a PCB the size of an iphone I get angry
give me a bigger, thicker laptop, with more smarts and memory and ports in it
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Charlotte /Cinny
charlotte
need a gender neutral word in germany but german doesn’t have one?
follow these simple steps!
- take the gendered word (der BĂĽrger)
- answer the question: what does that group do?
if there is no verb for it, simply mane one up! (bĂĽrgern) - turn that into a present gerund: bĂĽrgernd
- turn that into a noun: der/die/das BĂĽrgernde
congrats it’s now gender neutral
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