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.
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RedditWanderer@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y
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.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y
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/
chetradley@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 1y
Imagine having the ability to eradicate malaria and save hundreds of thousands of people per year, and just choosing not to.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
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.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 1y
I will always upvote this.
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 1y
negativenull@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Someone made a version of this for the Mormon church's obscene wealth as well: https://mormonbillions.com/
Eheran@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
That site is broken. It stops at 1 million.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 7 pts · 1y
We could all decide to just like... take their wealth. There's no ref that's going to call time out.
chetradley@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
I'm all ears...
HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com · 4 pts · 1y
I can never ever be this rich. I would be like the myspace guy.
ElJefe@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
What did he do?
HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com · 6 pts · 1y
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.
Rubisco@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
Another view and it's 12 years old.
moog@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
This is great. Good work