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Our universe is abandon ware?

In '00s games, sure.

In '20s games, it would be part of the Pay2Win scheme and only available to players who have rich parents.

Wow. This is another level of doomscrolling. Very educational though

And do not miss https://github.com/MKorostoff/1-pixel-wealth/blob/master/THE_PAPER_BILLIONAIRE.md

Love this guy’s work

Virtually everyone fails to grasp exactly how large of a number a billion is. It’s so, so much bigger than the ”very big number” people think of when they hear the word.

100% and, more so, thats not just a billion in cash, of course. Thats a billion dollars worth of stuff that makes you money, that can be sold off for at least a billion, most likely far more.

When people read these valuations, they often think to themselves "surely they can't be worth that much" and they're right. It will always be much, much more. Other than Trump, wealth valuations are always very, very conservative, due to the nature of how they do it, and thats before we get to the fact that they're only estimating their wealth on the assets that are publicly disclosed.

But if you got $5000 at 0.7% yearly interest rate for 2000 years, you'd get to Musk's wealth. You can only get that high with compound interest with investments, rather than earning money.

Interest is insane when you think about it

2000 Bezos or about 4x the GDP of the planet.

People just need to invest and stop blaming others for being broke SMH.

Invest one penny at 3% per year, who can't afford one penny? You'll have $68 billion in just one thousand years. Poverty is a choice.

yeah but 1.8 mil 532 years ago would have been valued like billions today. so you still need to be a billionaire to become that rich

so i couldn't even spend any of it ?

that's rubbish billionaire. unless i could use it to leverage banks to give me loans off of national credit programs.

and still then i'd just prefer not to.

i feel badly for people who can't get ever seem to get enough.

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.

Okay but in fairness if you put like 1% of that money virtually anywhere but under your matress you'd probably be richer than Bezos now. Even at like 3% interest of a $18,250 compunded over 530 years you'd have about half of Bezos' net worth.

What a failure of society

I have a hard enough time getting my head around how much money $100B is already. Like, I don't even see numbers above the hundreds of thousands ever (usually on loans, like my mortgage), so the idea that some of these people could buy my house 100,000+ times over, and I will spend years, paying for it once, is hard enough.

Wealth hoarding has gotten way out of hand.