For those who haven’t seen it, I thought this was an oldy but a goody. frankumstein.com/PDF/What%… I especially think it’s relevant now given the recent news about Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire. I think that is so wrong for any person, good or bad, to have that much money. No one deserves even a billion in my book, let alone a trillion. Given that $100 million is a forklift pallet of $100 bills, why should any one person deserve more than a few forklift pallets? That should be the wealth ceiling.

Conversely, there should be a floor. I think it’s bad for anyone to be living near, at, or below the poverty line. The federal poverty line, even if adjusted by location is still immorally poor. I prefer the ALICE (asset limited, income constrained, employed) measure as the moral economic floor.

For Tigard, Oregon, that would supposedly be $40-$45K/person/year, where I am at roughly double ALICE.

See below a Google AI overview. I didn’t fact check for hallucinations, although at first glance, the figures seem reasonable.