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minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·1 year agoFinal wish, multiply every bank balance by 0.5
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up37arrow-down1·1 year agoWould this one unintentionally help reduce wealth disparity?
minus-squareVlyn@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·1 year 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-up11·1 year 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-up10·1 year agoTo the power of 0.5 would be better
minus-squareloobkoob@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agoSo my bank balance can go from -£1 to £i - wow, thanks
minus-squareRedReaper@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoMultiply bank balances by current balance/$1000000
minus-squareRedReaper@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoCan’t have the common folk benefiting after all, that would be ludicrous.
minus-squareGrammaton Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s just a fancy way of saying “cut in half”.
minus-squarepotpotato@artemis.camplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoThat’s just a fancy way of saying “halve.”
minus-squarebingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s just a fancy way of saying “divide by 2.”
minus-squarelemmington_steele@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year 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
minus-squareirmoz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s just a fancy way of saying halve
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:
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
That’s just a fancy way of saying halve