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say you have 100 million dollars. you invest it very safely and conservatively and get a return of 5% per year. you now have a permanent income of 5 million a year, without doing anything to maintain it. 5 million a year is $13,700 per day.

if I were forced to try to spend on average $13,700 a day, I don't know how I would do it without just giving most of it away. even after I'd satisfied my wildest fantasies there would be so much left over. to have that level of wealth and continue trying to get more should be treated as a mental illness

and that's only 1% of 1%, i.e. one 10,000th, of a trillion dollars

I did the maths on this recently in anticipation of this horrible event.

If you were the first human ever born, about 300,000 years ago, and you saved $10,000 a day without ever spending a penny, you would only recently have crossed the 1,000,000,000,000 mark.

Also there really should be an emoji for the guillotine.

If you were born in the year 1AD and made $1,000,000 every day without ever spending a penny, you would still be hundreds of billions short of a trillion.

Is this referencing something?

Modern civilization is not 10k years old. Modern means from around the french revolution up thru the 1900s.

But i get thier point. And i agree.

What does modern human civilization even mean ?

Humans have a history long enough to have been almost wiped off the planet excepting a few thousand of us and came back with 8 billion plus strong.

Crassus was the wealthiest Roman during the age of Caesar but who the fuck cares about Crassus ?

NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT CRASSUS.

Empires make the eventual "wealthiest person in history" over and over again. These calculations happen over and over again. I'm tired of clowning the current King of Fools. Daenerys was right. Break the fucking wheel, burn the broken wheel, because the ending of this series is gonna be a disappointment and suck, too.