Poll of the Day > If you earn a million per year it'd still take 1000 years to be a billionaire

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Lokarin 04/06/24 4:13:29 PM #1:	Woop woop --- "Salt cures Everything!" My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Nirakolov/videos <cite>Lokarin posted [p:979767566] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>Woop woop </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
agesboy 04/06/24 4:19:08 PM #2:	if you make a million per year, it'd take a million years to be a trillionaire musk and bezos are about a fifth of the way there, and given how income inequality seems to be speeding up, that's probably achievable in their lifetimes --- https://imgur.com/LabbRyN raytan and Kana are on opposite ends of the Awesome Spectrum. <cite>agesboy posted [p:979767633] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>if you make a million per year, it'd take a million years to be a trillionairemusk and bezos are about a fifth of the way there, and given how income inequality seems to be speeding up, that's probably achievable in their lifetimes </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
captpackrat 04/06/24 4:52:23 PM #3:	https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bce864ae.jpg --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum. <cite>captpackrat posted [p:979768046] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bce864ae.jpg </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
darkknight109 04/06/24 5:19:07 PM #4:	My favourite perspective on how ridiculous the level of wealth the ultra-wealthy control is this one. If Jesus Christ, circa ~24 AD, decided that he didn't want to go through with the whole "dying for humanity's sins" thing and instead decided to make himself immortal and grant himself a *daily*stipend of $200,000 - as in, he wakes up every morning, there's another $200k in his bank account - and he didn't spend a single penny of it... ...he would just barely crack the top 5 for highest net worth on the planet. 2000 years times 365 days a year (we'll ignore leap years - they won't make a tonne of difference anyways, since they account for a sub-1% level of wealth on this scale) times $200,000 a day is $146 billion. That slots him in just ahead of Larry Ellison (net worth: $141 billion) on the all time wealth list, but behind Mark Zuckerberg ($177 billion), Jeff Bezos ($194 billion), Elongated Muskrat ($195 billion), and Bernard Arnault ($233 billion). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! <cite>darkknight109 posted [p:979768433] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>My favourite perspective on how ridiculous the level of wealth the ultra-wealthy control is this one.If Jesus Christ, circa ~24 AD, decided that he didn't want to go through with the whole "dying for humanity's sins" thing and instead decided to make himself immortal and grant himself a dailystipend of $200,000 - as in, he wakes up every morning, there's another $200k in his bank account - and he didn't spend a single penny of it......he would just barely crack the top 5 for highest net worth on the planet. 2000 years times 365 days a year (we'll ignore leap years - they won't make a tonne of difference anyways, since they account for a sub-1% level of wealth on this scale) times $200,000 a day is $146 billion. That slots him in just ahead of Larry Ellison (net worth: $141 billion) on the all time wealth list, but behind Mark Zuckerberg ($177 billion), Jeff Bezos ($194 billion), Elongated Muskrat ($195 billion), and Bernard Arnault ($233 billion). </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PMarth2002 04/06/24 6:41:09 PM #5:	If you didn't invest any of it, sure. Although even if you do invest, you'd probably need to make a lot of really good investments to hit a billion at just a million per year. --- When money talks for the very last time, and nobody walks a step behind When there's only one race, and that's mankind, then we shall be free <cite>PMarth2002 posted [p:979769745] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>If you didn't invest any of it, sure. Although even if you do invest, you'd probably need to make a lot of really good investments to hit a billion at just a million per year. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
agesboy 04/06/24 6:55:17 PM #6:	PMarth2002 posted... If you didn't invest any of it, sure. Although even if you do invest, you'd probably need to make a lot of really good investments to hit a billion at just a million per year. it's mostly just an exercise in realizing how absolutely fucking big millions, billions, and trillions are, even with respect to each other i used to think billionaires were just millionaires that were marginally more successful. no it's a whole ass new league of wealth --- https://imgur.com/LabbRyN raytan and Kana are on opposite ends of the Awesome Spectrum. <cite>agesboy posted [p:979770040] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>PMarth2002 posted... </cite><quote>If you didn't invest any of it, sure. Although even if you do invest, you'd probably need to make a lot of really good investments to hit a billion at just a million per year.</quote>it's mostly just an exercise in realizing how absolutely fucking big millions, billions, and trillions are, even with respect to each otheri used to think billionaires were just millionaires that were marginally more successful. no it's a whole ass new league of wealth </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
rjsilverthorn 04/06/24 7:18:55 PM #7:	agesboy posted... it's mostly just an exercise in realizing how absolutely fucking big millions, billions, and trillions are, even with respect to each other i used to think billionaires were just millionaires that were marginally more successful. no it's a whole ass new league of wealth Yeah, I remembered watching this video a while back and it does a good job of driving home just how much difference there is between the two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg <cite>rjsilverthorn posted [p:979770630] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>agesboy posted... </cite><quote>it's mostly just an exercise in realizing how absolutely fucking big millions, billions, and trillions are, even with respect to each otheri used to think billionaires were just millionaires that were marginally more successful. no it's a whole ass new league of wealth</quote>Yeah, I remembered watching this video a while back and it does a good job of driving home just how much difference there is between the two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zareth 04/06/24 7:27:41 PM #8:	When I played Diablo 3, the highest level of gems that you could upgrade, took around a million gold. I had like 500 million and would mash the "upgrade gem" button and still have a shit ton of gold. That made me realize that a billionaire could easily do the same thing with real life money. "Oh look at these supercars, let's see, I'll take that one, that one, that one, that one..." --- What would Bligh do? <cite>Zareth posted [p:979770824] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>When I played Diablo 3, the highest level of gems that you could upgrade, took around a million gold.I had like 500 million and would mash the "upgrade gem" button and still have a shit ton of gold.That made me realize that a billionaire could easily do the same thing with real life money. "Oh look at these supercars, let's see, I'll take that one, that one, that one, that one..." </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Hejiru 04/06/24 7:55:11 PM #9:	agesboy posted... i used to think billionaires were just millionaires that were marginally more successful. no it's a whole ass new league of wealth You know what the difference is between a millionaire and a billionaire? About a billion dollars. Best way to drive the point home IMO. --- The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. <cite>Hejiru posted [p:979771557] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>agesboy posted... </cite><quote>i used to think billionaires were just millionaires that were marginally more successful. no it's a whole ass new league of wealth</quote>You know what the difference is between a millionaire and a billionaire? About a billion dollars.Best way to drive the point home IMO. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
darkknight109 04/08/24 9:11:43 PM #10:	Zareth posted... That made me realize that a billionaire could easily do the same thing with real life money. "Oh look at these supercars, let's see, I'll take that one, that one, that one, that one..." The way that conceptualized it for me was that you can easily understand how life looks like to a billionaire by just adjusting the prices of everything around you. Like, let's put the "average" billionaire pay at $600 million a year - that's about 10,000 times the average US annual salary. So in order to figure out how much something costs to a billionaire, pretend you're an average Joe and divide the cost of anything by 10,000. Ultra-luxury hotel room? Those can be $10,000 a night; to a billionaire, that costs $1 a night. High-end Lambo? The Aventador SVJ Roadster starts at $575,000 - to our billionaire, that's like spending $57.50. Luxury property? $100 mil will get you into the top 25 most expensive properties on the planet; to our billionaire, that's a $10,000 purchase - certainly not something you're doing on the daily, but doable with some saving and planning. Executive assistant to run your life for you? Pay her the equivalent of $20 a year and you're set. Want a private jet to travel the world in style? For somewhere between $2,000 and $10,000 (plus maintenance and salaries that will wind up being a couple bucks a year to you), it's yours. Perhaps you're the philanthropic sort and want a building named after you? Shell out ~$10,000 and you can buy a decent new hospital for a community in need. It gets kind of unreal when you start putting real numbers to it. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! <cite>darkknight109 posted [p:979812028] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>Zareth posted... </cite><quote>That made me realize that a billionaire could easily do the same thing with real life money. "Oh look at these supercars, let's see, I'll take that one, that one, that one, that one..."</quote>The way that conceptualized it for me was that you can easily understand how life looks like to a billionaire by just adjusting the prices of everything around you.Like, let's put the "average" billionaire pay at $600 million a year - that's about 10,000 times the average US annual salary. So in order to figure out how much something costs to a billionaire, pretend you're an average Joe and divide the cost of anything by 10,000. Ultra-luxury hotel room? Those can be $10,000 a night; to a billionaire, that costs $1 a night. High-end Lambo? The Aventador SVJ Roadster starts at $575,000 - to our billionaire, that's like spending $57.50. Luxury property? $100 mil will get you into the top 25 most expensive properties on the planet; to our billionaire, that's a $10,000 purchase - certainly not something you're doing on the daily, but doable with some saving and planning. Executive assistant to run your life for you? Pay her the equivalent of $20 a year and you're set. Want a private jet to travel the world in style? For somewhere between $2,000 and $10,000 (plus maintenance and salaries that will wind up being a couple bucks a year to you), it's yours. Perhaps you're the philanthropic sort and want a building named after you? Shell out ~$10,000 and you can buy a decent new hospital for a community in need.It gets kind of unreal when you start putting real numbers to it. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
man101 04/09/24 4:37:59 PM #11:	darkknight109 posted... The way that conceptualized it for me was that you can easily understand how life looks like to a billionaire by just adjusting the prices of everything around you. Like, let's put the "average" billionaire pay at $600 million a year - that's about 10,000 times the average US annual salary. So in order to figure out how much something costs to a billionaire, pretend you're an average Joe and divide the cost of anything by 10,000. Ultra-luxury hotel room? Those can be $10,000 a night; to a billionaire, that costs $1 a night. High-end Lambo? The Aventador SVJ Roadster starts at $575,000 - to our billionaire, that's like spending $57.50. Luxury property? $100 mil will get you into the top 25 most expensive properties on the planet; to our billionaire, that's a $10,000 purchase - certainly not something you're doing on the daily, but doable with some saving and planning. Executive assistant to run your life for you? Pay her the equivalent of $20 a year and you're set. Want a private jet to travel the world in style? For somewhere between $2,000 and $10,000 (plus maintenance and salaries that will wind up being a couple bucks a year to you), it's yours. Perhaps you're the philanthropic sort and want a building named after you? Shell out ~$10,000 and you can buy a decent new hospital for a community in need. It gets kind of unreal when you start putting real numbers to it. Now reverse the equation and imagine a billionaire deciding to shell out what is the equivalent of a regular person getting a mortgage. They could mortgage an entire country. Or buy the moon. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun <cite>man101 posted [p:979824324] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>darkknight109 posted... </cite><quote>The way that conceptualized it for me was that you can easily understand how life looks like to a billionaire by just adjusting the prices of everything around you.Like, let's put the "average" billionaire pay at $600 million a year - that's about 10,000 times the average US annual salary. So in order to figure out how much something costs to a billionaire, pretend you're an average Joe and divide the cost of anything by 10,000. Ultra-luxury hotel room? Those can be $10,000 a night; to a billionaire, that costs $1 a night. High-end Lambo? The Aventador SVJ Roadster starts at $575,000 - to our billionaire, that's like spending $57.50. Luxury property? $100 mil will get you into the top 25 most expensive properties on the planet; to our billionaire, that's a $10,000 purchase - certainly not something you're doing on the daily, but doable with some saving and planning. Executive assistant to run your life for you? Pay her the equivalent of $20 a year and you're set. Want a private jet to travel the world in style? For somewhere between $2,000 and $10,000 (plus maintenance and salaries that will wind up being a couple bucks a year to you), it's yours. Perhaps you're the philanthropic sort and want a building named after you? Shell out ~$10,000 and you can buy a decent new hospital for a community in need.It gets kind of unreal when you start putting real numbers to it.</quote>Now reverse the equation and imagine a billionaire deciding to shell out what is the equivalent of a regular person getting a mortgage. They could mortgage an entire country. Or buy the moon. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Nichtcrawler-X 04/09/24 5:28:32 PM #12:	Would take longer than that here. --- Official Teetotaller of PotD Dovie'andi se tovya sagain! <cite>Nichtcrawler-X posted [p:979825123] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>Would take longer than that here. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
KJ_StErOiDs 04/09/24 10:38:22 PM #13:	Hejiru posted... You know what the difference is between a millionaire and a billionaire? About a billion dollars. Simple and so powerful. Fun fact: Elon Musk purchasing a Bugatti Chiron would impact his fortune about as much as a "normal" person in the US would impact theirs making a purchase from the Dollar Tree. --- "Shhh! Ben, don't ruin the ending!" --Adrian Ripburger, Full Throttle <cite>KJ_StErOiDs posted [p:979829675] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>Hejiru posted... </cite><quote>You know what the difference is between a millionaire and a billionaire? About a billion dollars.</quote>Simple and so powerful.Fun fact: Elon Musk purchasing a Bugatti Chiron would impact his fortune about as much as a "normal" person in the US would impact theirs making a purchase from the Dollar Tree. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
adjl 04/09/24 11:01:10 PM #14:	Accumulating $10,000 gets you about as close to having $100 billion as climbing Everest gets you to reaching the sun. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:979829979] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>Accumulating $10,000 gets you about as close to having $100 billion as climbing Everest gets you to reaching the sun. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Glob 04/09/24 11:01:22 PM #15:	I made about 2.85 billion last year. Unfortunately, it was in a currency where that is less impressive. <cite>Glob posted [p:979829983] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>I made about 2.85 billion last year.Unfortunately, it was in a currency where that is less impressive.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
captpackrat 04/10/24 6:20:41 AM #16:	Glob posted... I made about 2.85 billion last year. Unfortunately, it was in a currency where that is less impressive. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/ff74b63c.jpg --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum. <cite>captpackrat posted [p:979833012] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>Glob posted... </cite><quote>I made about 2.85 billion last year.Unfortunately, it was in a currency where that is less impressive.</quote>https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/ff74b63c.jpg </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Glob 04/10/24 7:51:37 AM #17:	captpackrat posted... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/ff74b63c.jpg No, VND. <cite>Glob posted [p:979833614] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>captpackrat posted... </cite><quote>https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/ff74b63c.jpg</quote>No, VND.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
KJ_StErOiDs 04/10/24 8:40:47 AM #18:	https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/41c26a91.jpg --- "Shhh! Ben, don't ruin the ending!" --Adrian Ripburger, Full Throttle <cite>KJ_StErOiDs posted [p:979834019] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/41c26a91.jpg </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
captpackrat 04/10/24 2:52:45 PM #19:	Glob posted... No, VND. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OZBbbgk6h8 --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum. <cite>captpackrat posted [p:979839236] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>Glob posted... </cite><quote>No, VND.</quote>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OZBbbgk6h8 </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Glob 04/10/24 6:35:42 PM #20:	captpackrat posted... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OZBbbgk6h8 Not sure what youre going for with that one. <cite>Glob posted [p:979842439] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>captpackrat posted... </cite><quote>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OZBbbgk6h8</quote>Not sure what youre going for with that one.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
captpackrat 04/10/24 6:46:59 PM #21:	Glob posted... Not sure what youre going for with that one. I guess we'll just take our millions of Dongs elsewhere. --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum. <cite>captpackrat posted [p:979842581] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>Glob posted... </cite><quote>Not sure what youre going for with that one.</quote>I guess we'll just take our millions of Dongs elsewhere. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Glob 04/10/24 7:02:31 PM #22:	captpackrat posted... I guess we'll just take our millions of Dongs elsewhere. Yeah, I watched the clip. Repeating a line from it doesnt clarify anything. <cite>Glob posted [p:979842826] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>captpackrat posted... </cite><quote>I guess we'll just take our millions of Dongs elsewhere.</quote>Yeah, I watched the clip. Repeating a line from it doesnt clarify anything.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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