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Do you make $5,000/day? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Did they have computers and future technology back then?

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This is a few years old but still a good visualisation:

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

Start scrolling.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (3 children)

kinda makes you think. billionaires should not exist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Why's that?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

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

Huh. Based on this online calculator(https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator), if i earn £5000 everyday in 1493(Cuntopher Columbus start his slave trading voyage in 1492 i think), i would have £1,825,000, which in today money is roughly £1,813,589,780.47, that's just for a single year.

Kinda made me the richest immortal in the world.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

that is obviously just an analogy for the huge time span. $5000/day meaning at the current value

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, under those conditions you'd have about $969 million: 531 years since 1493. $5000 x 365 = $1825000 per year x 531 = $969,075,000

According to this article Jeff Bezos makes $595,728,000 a week (holy shit), so even if you were Methuselah earning $5000 a day, he'd still have more money than you after two weeks 😱

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I don't think the original poster meant you to 'adjust for inflation'. Good thinking tho!