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Wealth, shown to scale (mkorostoff.github.io)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I find time makes it easier to grasp.

A million seconds is about 11 days. 1 billion seconds is about 32 years. 185 billion is just under 6000 years.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Horrifying. Also, it's from 2021 - Bezos now has $246B. Zuckerburg has $219B. Musk has more than them combined at $486B.

Source: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/elon-musk-net-worth-more-jeff-bezos-mark-zuckerberg-combined/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Imagine having the ability to eradicate malaria and save hundreds of thousands of people per year, and just choosing not to.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

To be fair, if they did that, these people would be forced to live only in inexpressibly obscene luxury. And we can't have that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will always upvote this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Same.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We could all decide to just like... take their wealth. There's no ref that's going to call time out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I'm all ears...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone made a version of this for the Mormon church's obscene wealth as well: https://mormonbillions.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That site is broken. It stops at 1 million.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can never ever be this rich. I would be like the myspace guy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What did he do?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

sold for some millions and spends his time enjoy life on beaches and boats and such. Doing what everyone dreams of for retirement. He could have been a billionaire if he kept up the pursuit of money but he realized he had more than he was inclined to spend even with extravagances taken into account.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

As far as I can tell he cashed out and is enjoying retirement, which is really the point of it all, innit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Another view and it's 12 years old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This is great. Good work