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My favourite perspective on how ridiculous the level of wealth the ultra-wealthy control is this one.

If Jesus Christ, circa ~24 AD, decided that he didn't want to go through with the whole "dying for humanity's sins" thing and instead decided to make himself immortal and grant himself a dailystipend of $200,000 - as in, he wakes up every morning, there's another $200k in his bank account - and he didn't spend a single penny of it...

...he would just barely crack the top 5 for highest net worth on the planet. 2000 years times 365 days a year (we'll ignore leap years - they won't make a tonne of difference anyways, since they account for a sub-1% level of wealth on this scale) times $200,000 a day is $146 billion. That slots him in just ahead of Larry Ellison (net worth: $141 billion) on the all time wealth list, but behind Mark Zuckerberg ($177 billion), Jeff Bezos ($194 billion), Elongated Muskrat ($195 billion), and Bernard Arnault ($233 billion).