Oracle co-founder’s shares rose by 40% in early trading, valuing his fortune at $393bn, just ahead of Musk’s $384bn

  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    But like, you can’t just delete someone’s wealth, because they can’t just rebuild an empire from scratch. These self-made billionaires are so strapped for cash, charitably speaking, because they need the capital to fund future charitable investments. Don’t you want to get a trickle of charity more than once? That’s why they can only donate like 10mil a year. Also partly because humans are really bad at estimating the difference between 10mil and 400bil. It’s like a factor of 40. They’ll be drained of wealth after 40 years at 10mil a year.

    Oh wait. Hold on. 40 years… 10 mil/year… So 400 million… If we froze their wealth of ~390bil, by the end of this scheme, they’d have… ~390,000,000,000- 400,000,000 =~389.6bil.

    OK nevermind fuckem