Now I need to do the math on space karen/ henery ford 2.0 aka Mr my autism makes me prone to outbursts of fascist apologia.

I did the math recently and if you took the assets of the wealthiest 1% and divided only half of it amongst the remaining 336.3 million Americans it would be a check of approximately 68,000 for every man woman and child and those bloated blood sucking leaches would still have an average remainder of just under 6 million dollars each.

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    3 hours ago

    though they would drop in value very fast thereafter, no? My naive understanding is that a good share of people would sell them immediately, causing a price crash.

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      Around 25% would have to sell over 50% of their stocks for it to maybe start having an effect.

      It could also raise the value of the stock to free up so much stock from a single person to many, as selling it would mean stronger belief in the stock going up.

      Stock market is part math, part religion really.