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minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·2 years agoFinal wish, multiply every bank balance by 0.5
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up38arrow-down1·2 years agoWould this one unintentionally help reduce wealth disparity?
minus-squareVlyn@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·2 years agoBy a lot! It would also cut every overdrawn bank account by half :) Unfortunately it’s just “bank balance”, so actual debts outside of that wouldn’t be touched.
minus-squareexplodicle@local106.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 years agoIt would get worse. Cash reserves are for working class people; the rich mostly hold stocks which appreciate over time.
minus-squarekey@lemmy.keychat.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoTo the power of 0.5 would be better
minus-squareloobkoob@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 years agoSo my bank balance can go from -£1 to £i - wow, thanks
minus-squareRedReaper@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoMultiply bank balances by current balance/$1000000
minus-squareRedReaper@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoCan’t have the common folk benefiting after all, that would be ludicrous.
minus-squareGrammaton Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 years agoThat’s just a fancy way of saying “cut in half”.
minus-squarepotpotato@artemis.camplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoThat’s just a fancy way of saying “halve.”
minus-squarebingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoThat’s just a fancy way of saying “divide by 2.”
minus-squareirmoz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoThat’s just a fancy way of saying halve
minus-squarelemmington_steele@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 years agothat’s just a fancy way of saying: imagine you have two children and live in a system of gavelkind succession. now consider the share of one of the children. then forget the children and make that share the new bank balance
Final wish, multiply every bank balance by 0.5
Would this one unintentionally help reduce wealth disparity?
By a lot! It would also cut every overdrawn bank account by half :)
Unfortunately it’s just “bank balance”, so actual debts outside of that wouldn’t be touched.
It would get worse. Cash reserves are for working class people; the rich mostly hold stocks which appreciate over time.
To the power of 0.5 would be better
So my bank balance can go from -£1 to £i - wow, thanks
Money is imaginary
It’s a bit more complex than that.
Yeah this
Multiply bank balances by current balance/$1000000
There’s the evil
Can’t have the common folk benefiting after all, that would be ludicrous.
Divide every bank balance by zero
That’s just a fancy way of saying “cut in half”.
That’s just a fancy way of saying “halve.”
That’s just a fancy way of saying “divide by 2.”
That’s just a fancy way of saying halve
that’s just a fancy way of saying:
imagine you have two children and live in a system of gavelkind succession. now consider the share of one of the children. then forget the children and make that share the new bank balance