Bernie Sanders has set the fortunes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg against a federal minimum wage that has not moved since 2009, and the replies turned the question back on the senator's own estimated $2.5M (£1.9M). His post puts Musk at $719B (£541B) today against $2B (£1.5B) in 2012, and closes on one word: 'Obscene.'
The comparison landed at a moment when every part of it can be checked. The wealth lines come from a public ranking, the wage line from federal statute, which is why the argument moved so quickly from whether the numbers are right to whether the man citing them ought to be citing them at all.
