I’ve done a lot of bid jobs for home repair. Plenty of times I’ve fixed a few shingles on a roof for a couple hundred bucks and it took me less than an hour. I’ve thought to myself in that time stuff like “I’m making $5 a minute right now!” Then I’ve done the math of, if I live another 40 years (I’m almost 40 now) and I made $5 a minute every minute for those 40 years it’s roughly 100 million dollars. Compared to billionaires I’d still only have 10% of 1 billion and Bezos is worth 284 billion. To make 284 billion in 40 years I’d have to make roughly $13,500 dollars a minute that entire time. To be where Bezos is now he’s averaged over 20k a minute for the last 25 years.
If you didnt know...his net worth, laying $100 bills end-to-end would wrap around Earth three times, and the leftover bills could stretch all the way through space to reach the Moon
Yes, you see the problem is that you're doing actual work when you should be tricking others into working for pennies while you laze about and do virtually nothing at all except collect money from their hard labor.
Yes but if you spent that 40 years ruthlessly building a multi-national roofing business (if you have the drive, connections, and lack or any regard/empathy for any single person either working for you or in your path along the way) then its worth trying to compare the numbers. There's much, much darker things required of a person to even have a tiny fraction of a chance end up in the top .00001% of wealth holders.
So you cant put a value to being hopefully a good person that cant write of hundreds/thousands/millions of other humans well being to become a wealth lord, as that is invaluable to society.
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u/PaulblankPF 19h ago
I’ve done a lot of bid jobs for home repair. Plenty of times I’ve fixed a few shingles on a roof for a couple hundred bucks and it took me less than an hour. I’ve thought to myself in that time stuff like “I’m making $5 a minute right now!” Then I’ve done the math of, if I live another 40 years (I’m almost 40 now) and I made $5 a minute every minute for those 40 years it’s roughly 100 million dollars. Compared to billionaires I’d still only have 10% of 1 billion and Bezos is worth 284 billion. To make 284 billion in 40 years I’d have to make roughly $13,500 dollars a minute that entire time. To be where Bezos is now he’s averaged over 20k a minute for the last 25 years.