• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    The funny thing is how quickly “millionaire” has become a meaningless term.

    iirc in the 1989 Batman movie Bruce Wayne is still described as a ‘millionaire.’ By 2004 he was a ‘billionaire.’

    At this point, anyone with a house could come up with $1 million.

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      Also she’s from the Bay Area, every house starts at a million. So just owning a home in the area she lived and worked in would make her a millionaire by default. It’s such a bad metric.

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        I think it was Isaac Asimov who wrote that we use ‘astronomical’ to describe vast amounts, but that eventually we’d replace ‘astronomical’ with ‘financial’