To have as much wealth as Jeff Bezos currently has, you would have had to put $100 into savings each and every day since around 3,300,000 years ago (before the first human species arose). The system is broken.
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Quote of the Day:
Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.
Stephen Hawking