nice circle
I’m too lazy to keep looking, but here’s a small sampling. Ambassador positions to friendly countries tend to go to friends/donors and not worth comparing. DOGE can’t be compared, as it doesn’t exist. Figures are whatever I found at the top of google, not adjusted for inflation or value the years they were in office. Big enough gap that it didn’t matter. Maybe someone else can check Bush?
2013 Obama - $6M
- Secretary of Commerce - Penny Pritzker - $3.6B
- Secretary of Education - Arne Duncan - $4.8M
- Secretary of Interior - Ken Salazar - $2M
- Small Business Administrator - Karen G Mills - “At least” $705,000
- NASA Administrator - Charles F Bolden - “At least” $537,000
Thanks for looking into what I’m clearly too lazy to do! A quick lazy Internet search shows that Biden’s cabinet appears to be mostly “only” millionaires according to this.
That article also compares Biden’s to Trump’s previous cabinet. And references Obama’s. I would like to note that framing this all as “measly millionaire” is so disconnected from the remainder of America.
Millionaires seem pretty reasonable, its not surprising for someone who’s presumably had a decades long career to own a house and a bit of savings. If we’re being generous the difference between a billionaire and a millionaire is the same as the difference between a millionaire and someone living in the street, in reality the difference is about a billion dollars.
Except the difference between billionaire and millionaire is considerably more vast than that, and humans are quite poor at understanding that intuitively.
One million seconds is about 11.6 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 years.
It’s an issue when people think of that leap of million to billion as you have, as it greatly discounts how much these leeches have sucked out of working people.
