Do you make $5,000/day?

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

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

Start scrolling.

In a video game, whatever allowed them to become billionaires would have been called an "exploit" and would have been nerfed in the next patch.

kinda makes you think. billionaires should not exist.

I mean its worse than that. Youd need to work at a rate of 16,600/hr, 24 hours a day for 2,000 years to get even close to Elon Musk

But if you made just 3% interest on your money as you deposit $1,825,000 annually, over 532 years, you'd end up having $410 trillion dollars or more than 2,000 bezos.

I bet for a long while you'd be like, "What even are dollars?", since they hadn't been invented yet.

That why you should have invested that 969 million usd in bitcoin

/s

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.

Big brain chuds: But what if you used that money to exploit the labor of others?

For the curious you'd make 970million in the 532years. Jeff bozos net worth is about 200 billion. You'd need an annual interest rate of about 2.12% to reach 200billion over that period, assuming you spend none of it, if you took an annual income of 20k then you'd only be at 135billion at the end of the period.

Although if you did earn $5k per day and managed to invest at a yearly return of 3% above inflation, you'd have about $41 trillion

At 1% above interest you'd just have $3.6 billion so invest wisely

(edit, corrected the numbers)

Okay so then how is he worth that much?

These memes and stories are like, "its unbelievable that Bezos is worth so much money", no it makes perfect sense!

Talking about billionaires ... it almost seems quaint as we barrel towards having actual trillionaires.

Linear growth < exponential growth

So... Basic math...?

Did they have computers and future technology back then?