gassygiant@discuss.onlinetoNews@lemmy.world•US Billionaires Have Doubled Their Wealth Since 2017 Trump Tax OverhaulEnglish
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7 months agoA rule of thumb for invested money is that it doubles every 7 years. It’s possible that it’s more to do with time than the tax break. It was likely to happen anyway.
On the other hand, billionaire wealth isn’t just invested moneys, it’s usually corporate fuckery.
That said, let’s ACTUALLY tax the fuck out of it and put it to good use.
Yes, gravity is a theory. In scientific terms, theories are proven, repeatable, and accepted. It’s the most robust and strongest form of scientific “fact” we have (since new discoveries can change our understanding, we can’t honestly declare it indisputably factual).
When people say “I have a theory…” they usually mean “I have a hypothesis…” which is some idea or problem statement that is unproven, untested, unverified.
OP was playing off the conflation of those two things.