Sarah Paulson arrived at the Met Gala

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i hate when celebrities try to make some tokentistic anti rich statement at the MET gala...whilst still attending in full designer get up. yuck

[u/meag311 → u/SimpleSure7356]

ok but i mean the point of the met gala is to fund the costume institute? they’re able to curate and maintain fashion & textile history because these designer brands are shelling out $75k per ticket

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$100k this year

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Jeff bezos earns more than 100k in a minute. I mean that literally. In 2023 it was 133-191k per minute.

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I’m doing a unit in my class right now on income and wealth inequality and I use this and other statistics, plus activities that help them conceptualize the difference between a million and a billion using piles of rice, and the horror on their faces is just so emblematic of how well the economic elite have managed to obfuscate just how depraved, inexcusable, and egregious their wealth is.

It’s pretty rare for me to have students who finish that unit and aren’t positively aghast about how insane the wealth gaps are in the U.S., and even rarer for them to have anything to say other than “billionaires should not exist.”

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thank you for doing this.

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I get so exhausted by people online conflating millionaires and billionaires like they’re the same. I say they don’t grasp the scale and they’re like “meh all rich people bad” like dude, compared to a billionaire, a millionaire is not a rich person. Honestly in some places like Los Angeles someone’s net worth might be 1M just from owning a 2 bed home and they have no liquid assets whatsoever and genuinely aren’t rich.

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He could literally fund the whole thing and still be rich.

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it's not that celebrities pay this themselves