By Molly F. Imagine dropping a one dollar bill every second. By the end of a minute, you’ve dropped 60 dollars; 3,600 dollars after an hour. That means that the average person would go completely broke within a few days. So imagine you’re a millionaire, you have one million dollars total. If you were to drop a dollar bill every second you would still go broke in a short time period. Just twelve days. On the other hand, say you're a billionaire and you have one billion dollars. If you were to drop a dollar every second you would only go broke after a whopping 32 years. Let me say that again. It takes 12 days for a millionaire to go broke, and you would have to multiply that number by 973 to even get close to what it would take for a billionaire. And that's not even counting the normal people, A.K.A., 94% of America's population. 39.7 million people living in the USA were living in poverty as of 2017, according to the 2017 census. That's 11.7 percent of the population! The federal poverty level is $24,600 per year for a family of four. Many of the people in poverty are living on much less. A person with one billion dollars could solve a family of four’s money problems for the year, and it wouldn’t even make much of a dent in their bank account. That same billionaire could (hypothetically) also solve 40,600 families money problems and still have $1,230,000 left, not to mention what they would still be making. Unbelievably, many billionaires have much more billions of dollars to help the rest of the population. For example, the richest person in the USA is Jeff Bezos and he has 160 million dollars. This guy alone could do so much more than our hypothetical billionaire, not to mention the other billionaires such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. If these people had a stronger moral compass, or if they were persuaded by someone, they could help thousands of people have enough food, have a good education, have better and easier accessible resources to help them help themselves. Image Source: https://www.videoblocks.com
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