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I did a whole thread of this math back in 2018; it was primarily about Bezos, but I was talking obscene wealth in general & noted "It'd take Teflon Mask [~637.4] years of spending USD $1/Second to spend his entire net worth." That was < Eight Years Ago. ~50x his ostensible net worth. In < 8 Years.
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Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This on Twitter (archived)
So let's make thus real: <br><br>There have been lottery combinations that would give you either USD $1M or $1B.<br><br>So if you somehow managed to spend exactly $1/second every second of your life—w...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams is under the vast indifference of heaven
If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
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No one man should have all that power.
A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money
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