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[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

One million seconds is 11.5 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

A million dollars would change anyone's life.

Nobody needs a billion dollars, and a trillion dollars is so obscene that humanity deserves to become extinct because we've allowed this to happen.

Elon could singlehandedly save the planet, but he'll take it all to his grave (on Mars), and then lawyers will fight over his mountains of money.

When it's all over, his money will help nobody...and he'll likely break a trillion by fleecing retirement funds out of all their money when SpaceX forces funds to buy into the pump & dump.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

It's funny that we're at the point where we have billionaires who aren't even on the same order of magnitude as those approaching the trillionaore threshold.

Imagine having 5 billion dollars to your name and some dude out there has 100 times that amount at 500 billion dollars.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

One million seconds is 11.5 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

Or with monetary comparisons, there's only a handfuld of countries on this planet with higher GPD than his net worth. Or, if that was somehow some kind of value instead of made-up numbers, Elon alone would contribute to the world about as much as half of Canada or everyone in Taiwan.

Obviously that doesn't quite work like that, but maybe one person should not have more financial leverage than majority of whole countries on the planet.