“swiped from their fortune”… If my 401(k) fell in half overnight, the media wouldn’t say it was swiped from me, they would say my retirement saving has “sagged” or somesuch.
For us old-timers, it reminds me of this scene in the Carl Sagan movie Contact where the ultra-rich SR Hadden played brilliantly hy John Hurt is talking to Jodie Foster’s character, Dr. Arroway.
His character hilariously still did more with his money for Earth than the real life billionaires.“Why build one, when you can build two for twice the price??”
“swiped from their fortune”… If my 401(k) fell in half overnight, the media wouldn’t say it was swiped from me, they would say my retirement saving has “sagged” or somesuch.
For us old-timers, it reminds me of this scene in the Carl Sagan movie Contact where the ultra-rich SR Hadden played brilliantly hy John Hurt is talking to Jodie Foster’s character, Dr. Arroway.
a final gesture of good will to the people of this little planet that have given… sputters … from whom I have taken so much.
The terms we usually use are “wiped out”. It happens fairly often
His character hilariously still did more with his money for Earth than the real life billionaires. “Why build one, when you can build two for twice the price??”
Holy shit my 401(k)s went down by around 8% which means Fortune article on me when‽ I lost more than Bezos!