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redditingatwork23 t1_iufuiju wrote

Reply to comment by Dimantina in [WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. by WarturtleWitch

How fucking crazy is that for perspective? You could have a demon from hell give you pure golden eggs every single day and you would still die from old age thousands of years before catching up with Bezos.

Hell, you wouldn't even break the top 1000 richest in the world unless price of gold skyrocketed.

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5tr4nGe t1_iugoe9k wrote

Hell just the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is terrifying

A million seconds seems like a long time right? Well it’s a little over 12 days

How long do you think a billion seconds is? A few months maybe? It’s just shy of 32 YEARS.

Let’s put it this way, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man. His wealth is truly mind blowing. Imagine you went back in time to the building of the pyramids, and set up a scheme where you would be paid a dollar a second between then and now, and then you came back to the present day, and you STILL wouldn’t have as much money as Elon Musk.

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Xamonir t1_iuhmt2a wrote

I have seen this reposted many times. But I admit I had never seen it in comments. Didn't expect that. So now for me you will be the Original Commenter of that.

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Dimantina t1_iufw1n1 wrote

Kinda why I did the math. Wanted to see how much it was.

The perspective is insane.

Thanks for appreciating it.

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Mad_Moodin t1_iuggfce wrote

The net worth of top billionaires is just something else.

Going from 2017 to 2018 Bezos made more than 8 million per hour. More money than most people will make in their lifetime. Hell you could add together what my mother, father, sister and I will earn in our lifetime and it wouldnt reach Bezos' hourly income.

During that year he made as much money as the GDP of Ethiopia with a population of 100 million people.

The entire output of these 100 million people was less than Bezos' income.

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