• Nahvi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fair question.

    In my hastily put together analogy, the rich guy would live up on the top floor which he converted to a pent house, probably with a helicopter pad. That guy like in real life is going to try to squeeze the money out of the guys a few floors down from himself. If it actually comes to a building collapse or something catastrophic, he probably tries to escape to another building.

    Really though, this analogy is probably stretched to its limit.

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      1 year ago

      Why wouldn’t he escape before the building got that bad? Why wouldn’t he escape the first time someone fell through the floor?

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        1 year ago

        Presumably their part of the building is holding up fine. We certainly aren’t seeing a lot of rich people flee the US so far.

        Incidentally, not that it really matters, the holes in the floor were not meant to indicate the building itself was rotting away, just that the layers had worn through and need to be replaced. Basically everything after the first post has just been shoe-horned into the analogy on the fly.