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by solardev 1313 days ago
It's not a logical inconsistency to point out that dollars matter a lot less once you have enough.

The difference between having a dollar and ten dollars a day is huge. The difference between a hundred and a thousand a day is still big, sure, but you're probably not going to die of starvation either way. And once you're in dev salary land and higher, you're counting bedrooms, acres, cars, vacations, yachts...

The wealth inequality thing matters not because Bezos has spaceships and Zuckerberg only has 3d glasses. It's that we still have millions of people with food and shelter insecurity, regardless of how much the richest have.

It's not a linear thing. Zuckerberg losing a few million is utterly meaningless vs a regular family losing a few thousand.