Previously on The World Forgotten. Loki had just posted a graph showing the 1% lose more during the 2008 crash in support of the claim that a recession hits everyone. And now the conclusion:
Loki. Little math puzzle for you. If one person has a monthly cost of living of 1500 credits, and an monthly income of 1999 credits and another person has a monthly cost of living of 15000 credits and a monthly income of 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 million billion credits, and then there's a crash and first persons income falls by 25% and the second person's falls by 50%, who is worse off?
Extra credit: Can Person B still afford donations to political candidates who will keep taxes low and cut welfare programs instead, as well as block any attempts at regulation? Do they sill own controlling stake in powerful employers who keep wages frozen in exchange for more returns for investors? Do they still own major media outlets who employ Very Serious People as pundits who'll say any mildly left wing policy that threatens their position is Insane Communism and Not Serious which will destroy the economy, even though they themselves just destroyed the economy thanks their own monomanicial persuit of profit at the expense of literally everything including their own medium term interests, like some kind of mad AI from an Eliezer Yudkowsky fever dream?
P.S. this is an entirely math base puzzle