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Originally Posted by troutman
It is sometimes hard for us to comprehend the difference in scale between million and billion and trillion.
A million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is 31 years and a trillion seconds is 31709 years.
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Nobody cares about joe blow the vacuum shop owner or jimmy the petrochemical engineer croaking and taking the hundreds of thousands/low M of dollars they have saved up and giving it to their kids
Money begets money. Anyone who has done any amount of investing surely realizes there is a tipping point where “being smart with your money” bleeds into “unstoppable snowball via simply having a ####load of money”
Here we are losing our minds over the people who educate the next generation of humans and the people who treat you when you are sick over hundreds of dollars a month when temporarily embarrassed millionaires think the government boogeyman is gonna take their scraps if we dare make changes to the status quo
This is an American graph, but the overall stat applies to virtually any place in the world
Giant disclaimer: I am not naive and nothing can be done about this. In fact I’ve advocated really hard in this thread about budgeting, living within your means and being pragmatic about society. However when rich people worship reaches these kinds of levels it just makes me shake my head. There can be people who are irresponsible and bad with money AND the system can be completely broken, it’s not an either or proposition