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Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

tofugolem ("Tofu Golem") wrote:

We are trained to make excuses for the inexcusable.

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• This is Smaug, the dragon from The Hobbit. Smaug family stole a mountain full of gold. So full that he sleeps buried under gold. We're talking literally tons of gold by weight. Forbes ranks Smaug as the second wealthiest fictional character. He had been first, but the price of gold took a tumble, and now his vast, overwhelming fortune is only worth an estimated $51,400,000,000.00, or $51.4 billion. That means that EVEN THOUGH he has an ENTIRE MOUNTAIN full of almost nothing but solid gold, Smaug would rank as the FIFTEENTH wealthiest American. Fourteen Americans have more money than a gold-hoarding dragon. Please consider that the next time you say deca-billionaires deserve their wealth and shouldn't pay their employees living wages. (Picture of the fictional dragon)