Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.
You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.
That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”
For reference, Rockefeller was worth $1.4 billion in 1937 dollars on his death. That is the equivalent of $31.36 billion today. The richest person, Elon Musk, is currently worth $400 billion, or nearly 13 Rockefellers.
Nothing humanity has ever seen really compares, unless you’re looking at literal kings literally enslaving and literally extracting all value from an entire population, and even then the scale will be far lower given population growth. We are in the oligarch golden age, and if we’re lucky and we don’t stay here, people will look back at this moment, and not the robber baron era, as the historical comparator for grotesque wealth accumulation.
This is the era of the Iron Heel.
It wouldn’t be so bad if he actually threw some of that money at good causes. But he doesn’t.
If I just multiplied my spending habits to his level I would have probably fully funded several charities. If I can give away money, while still paying off a mortgage and grocery, he definitely can. I have no problem with the ultra wealthy per se it’s their selfishness that’s the problem.
Whoah, I’m feeling like I just read words on a page, man. Literature has gotten crazy, man.
That’s literally what I wanted you to feel!
WTF is a “Christtime” and why does that chart contradict itself multiple times?
The length of time between 1/1/1 and today.
How is that arbitrary date relevant? What about the contradictions?
It’s not an arbitrary date is it? It’s when AD started
Sure, but why use that for a length of time one must earn a wage? Nobody’s 2,025 years old. How about something like a human lifespan, or something round yet close to that, such as a century?
Sounds like you’re volunteering to remake the chart! Rather than complain about someone making it “wrong” in your opinion, you could just, you know, put that same energy towards fixing it yourself.
God forbid anyone criticize anything.
How is that arbitrary date relevant?
I dunno, I just read the first line in the graphic.
What about the contradictions?
You didn’t specify contradictions and this isn’t my job.
If you’re not going to respond to my comments, don’t respond to my comments.
Read the lines with that “christ date” or whatever made up bullshit that is.
They’re pointing out that if you live for 2,000 odd years you would still have to have several thousand lifespans at that extended life length in order to equal Jeff Bezos.
The reason I was able to work that out was because I read the first fucking sentence.
My point is that 2,025 years is a very arbitrary length of time, “Christtime” isn’t a word, and the chart contradicts itself. You could work that out by reading my comments, and beyond the first fucking sentence.
In before “well acktually compound interest.”
Bonus: he needs to feed himself, pay rent and do taxes using the money he earns. If he dies, he’ll start all over again at $0.
whoa whoa whoa, let’s be realistic. he also needs to pay electricity, internet, phone, car + car insurance, and then he’ll get sick/injured once a year and his shit HSA insurance doesn’t cover anything until he hits 7000 dollars in medical expenses, so he’ll have to pay for 3k of medical expenses out of pocket
And he gets to have the option of cheap public transit but it’s underfunded and badly managed on purpose so what should be a calm 30min bus ride is a an hour and half each way. Mock him for spending money on the car “when a bus pass is cheaper.”
When he complains about any of it tell he should just work harder and then raise prices a couple months later and give him a 1% while telling him he should be grateful.
He needs to crowd fund for car repairs and knew surgery.
re-posting my meme response to last week’s post of this:
It’s looking like a White Christmas!
I still maintained that that was the creepiest black mirror episode of all of them including the new ones.
Naahhh… that would give him hope - He’d have infinite time for it, and eventually achieve that. The people he exploits now, don’t have a light at the end of the tunel
nono it’s okay, we simulate the real world - every time he gets close to getting good savings and builds up hope, we crush it just like on Earth - his car breaks, he or a loved one has a medical emergancy, spice it up sometimes with natural disasters, random price spikes for necessities. he’ll never be actually able to save up for a house, let alone the fortune he had when he was alive. he’d be one of the last to get out of hell
Okay there, Zeus.
No he wouldent, assuming you left his money in an account with interest. Even that shitty .02% you get from normal checking accounts, he would never be able to work off the interest alone, its still millions of dollars a day.
thats like 6,000,000 years, and as St. Paulie said
“You add up all your mortal sins and multiply that number by 50. Then you add up all your venial sins and multiply that by 25. You add that together and that’s your sentence. I figure I’m gonna have to do 6,000 years before I get accepted into heaven and 6,000 years is nothin’ in eternity terms. I can do that standing on my head. It’s like a couple of days here.”
so it seems appropriate
He doesn’t even need to die first. He can start as soon as… Well right now.
This is so poetic, I wanna start a thread about this to get more such examples of punishment
Shower thought: imagine that there’s only one soul in the universe, and it’s doomed to live the life of every living thing that has ever existed or will ever exist, one after the other. There would be a lot of good moments, but a lot of getting eaten and shit like that, too. Then imagine Jeff Bezos being that soul and what he has to look forward to.
Isn’t there a theory that there’s only a single electron in the universe, that’s travelling through time to manifest in multiple places at once? Can we call it Jeff?
I think that one electron deserves “Geoffrey”, don’t you?
Whatever hell doesn’t exist though so I’d rather see him face consequences in real life
Maybe soon the technology will exist sort of like that one episode of Black Mirror
Some people believe you get reincarnated after death and live the life of every person that ever lived.
Not saying I believe in that, but that would be a very poetic form of justice/karma
Would could should but it’s not happening
My idea is, to capture him and give him a choice, either work for the rest of Your life in the same conditions as Your warehouse employees, or the guillotine. I’m pretty sure he would go for the guillotine after 2 hours.
Yes where he has to make all the clothes he ever sold
What is that
Right he should be paid minimum wage – Pakistani minimum wage
So zero rupees?
Well I guess its like $130 usd per month, which would only take 146,730,769 years give or take a few mil to pay off. Chances are he’s got about 1/3 of his wealth squirrelled away in the cayman islands or some shit, so lets say a nice round 200,000,000 years to pay it off. My spite says that’s not long enough, but it’s hell which is supposed to be eternal torment and suffering, so at that point he can be transferred to the level of hell where you are walking through a dark house looking for the bathroom, and you really have to go but you keep smashing your bare toes and shins into furniture , but you never actually find the bathroom
He may!
