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Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.
You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.
That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”
For reference, Rockefeller was worth $1.4 billion in 1937 dollars on his death. That is the equivalent of $31.36 billion today. The richest person, Elon Musk, is currently worth $400 billion, or nearly 13 Rockefellers.
Nothing humanity has ever seen really compares, unless you're looking at literal kings literally enslaving and literally extracting all value from an entire population, and even then the scale will be far lower given population growth. We are in the oligarch golden age, and if we're lucky and we don't stay here, people will look back at this moment, and not the robber baron era, as the historical comparator for grotesque wealth accumulation.
This is the era of the Iron Heel.
Whoah, I'm feeling like I just read words on a page, man. Literature has gotten crazy, man.
That's literally what I wanted you to feel!
It wouldn't be so bad if he actually threw some of that money at good causes. But he doesn't.
If I just multiplied my spending habits to his level I would have probably fully funded several charities. If I can give away money, while still paying off a mortgage and grocery, he definitely can. I have no problem with the ultra wealthy per se it's their selfishness that's the problem.
WTF is a "Christtime" and why does that chart contradict itself multiple times?
The length of time between 1/1/1 and today.
How is that arbitrary date relevant? What about the contradictions?
I dunno, I just read the first line in the graphic.
You didn't specify contradictions and this isn't my job.
If you're not going to respond to my comments, don't respond to my comments.
Read the lines with that "christ date" or whatever made up bullshit that is.
They're pointing out that if you live for 2,000 odd years you would still have to have several thousand lifespans at that extended life length in order to equal Jeff Bezos.
The reason I was able to work that out was because I read the first fucking sentence.
My point is that 2,025 years is a very arbitrary length of time, "Christtime" isn't a word, and the chart contradicts itself. You could work that out by reading my comments, and beyond the first fucking sentence.
Not once have you said what the contradictions were, so don't blame others for your inability to express what you mean.
Literally the only two lines that use the term "Christtimes." Try reading the chart.
It's not an arbitrary date is it? It's when AD started
Sure, but why use that for a length of time one must earn a wage? Nobody's 2,025 years old. How about something like a human lifespan, or something round yet close to that, such as a century?
Sounds like you're volunteering to remake the chart! Rather than complain about someone making it "wrong" in your opinion, you could just, you know, put that same energy towards fixing it yourself.
God forbid anyone criticize anything.
In before "well acktually compound interest."