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I bet for a long while you'd be like, "What even are dollars?", since they hadn't been invented yet.
Nevermind dollars. What about inflation? $5000/day in 1900 would be worth $187,000 today. That's $68M/year.
You'd need, what? 15 years to get a billion at that rate. You'd also be accusing money faster than Rockefeller.
I have to wonder where all that wealth would even be coming from.
I think you have to deflate to the year to make it equal to $5k today. For instance, if we go back to 1635, we're looking at $131.62/day