If you went back in time to the year 100,000 BC, early homosapiens are beginning to migrate out of Africa and large parts of Europe are under about a kilometre of snow and ice. There are about 90,000 years left in the ice age.

If you are immortal and begin saving $10,000 every single day, without spending any of it, by the time it’s 2025 you still won’t have the same net worth as Elon fucking Musk.

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    18 days ago

    I had the misfortune of talking to a “wealth expert” about the absurdity of a billion dollars before. I used the million seconds is about a week and a half whereas a billion seconds is 31 years. In essence he said, “You don’t understand. Wealth is logarithmic.” Ah, well touché. Can’t argue with a math word.

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      17 days ago

      Yeah it’s logarithmic because nobody should need over $2 million. You are stealing exponentially at billions of dollars.

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        17 days ago

        Pretty sure he was always dumb as hell because he should have said wealth is exponential. Or he meant that wealth growth should be measured on a logarithmic scale, which like, why though? I think he just learned the word and thought it sounded cool.