• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    His net worth is between $14M and $20M. That’s a lot for you and me, but he is nobody for example next to musk’s $400B (20,000 times more)

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      5 months ago

      I’d consider this way; assuming the upper bound there (20m), Elon spent over 14 Bill Burr’s worth helping Trump get elected, and that was pocket change to him.

      That’s the difference in scale. Musk could lose everything Burr has ever owned and he literally would not notice.

      You can maybe argue that what Burr has is too much. Personally, I really don’t care at this point. I’ll ponder the moral rightness of the existence of millionaires when there are no more billionaires.

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      25 months ago

      One million seconds is a about 11 days, 1 billion seconds is just under 32 years. People underestimate the difference

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        25 months ago

        The one I’ve always liked is “the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is… about a billion dollars”

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          5 months ago

          Considering the horrifically shit quality of education in the US, you’re probably better off saying “the difference between a million and a billion dollars is 999 million dollars”.

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            15 months ago

            Considering the average American is more ignorant than Philomena Cunk, are we sure they can count that high?