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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not just multimillionaire, hectomillionaire 8 times over! There's a world of difference between, for example, $5m and $800m!

Edit: corrected prefix from one meaning the opposite

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not just multimillionaire, centimillionaire 8 times over

Just because I spent entirely too long trying to figure out which one you were saying only had $80k: I think you meant hectomillionaire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well, dammit! It's bad enough that I used the wrong prefix, but to actually use the wrong prefix that FORBES use? That's just humiliating! 😬😂

Thanks for letting me know, though 🙂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is why people just call them "mega" millionaires, because there's a big difference between $2 million and $80 million too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Except there's still the obvious problem: using the same word for things that are different by a factor of 10 or more. Plus there's no consensus on the lower boundary of "mega" either.

Much better to be at least a LITTLE precise when you're talking about the unethical nature of perverse abundance..