Microblog Memes

Athletes are among the people who earn the highest salaries based on their abilities and talents. The top athletes earn more than the top Hollywood stars. The English Premier League has the highest total wage bill of any futbol / soccer league on the planet. Paying Manchester City's wage bill costs £300m per year, the club with the lowest wage bill was Burnley at only £70m/year. Sum up every team and you get £2.7 billion per year, or $3.6 billion. That's less than 1% of $1 trillion. If you took $1 trillion in cash and set it aside, never adding anything to it, you could page the wages of all those clubs for centuries.

It's enough to spend $1 every second for 31,709 years.

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

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Dollars have only been around like 200 years. Assuming they'll be around in 200 years is maybe a bit of a farce. This goes triple for things like bitcoin that have even higher overhead costs.

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.

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.

Is this referencing something?

Or, if you had 20 kids, you could pay them $1.6m a year until half of them revolt and set the galaxy on fire in the year 30k

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.

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.