• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    Well no shit… If you’re 30 years old and you EARNED, legit EARNED a billion dollars, you would have to have made $1,056.99 EVERY SECOND of your entire life from birth to 30.

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      1 year ago

      That, and a billion dollars is not earned unless you count your money managers earning their own pay by investing your money well.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think your math is correct. There are 946,728,000 seconds in 30 years. That would mean they made just over a dollar per second, which is still pretty insane.

      • xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com
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        1 year ago

        I think there is confusion over the long- and short scale naming system for numbers.

        Long Billion: 10^12

        Short Billion: 10^9

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          1 year ago

          Huh, never heard of that before. I’ve literally only ever heard of 1 billion as 1,000,000,000.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, it could be confusing, except what individual on earth has a trillion (long-form billion) dollars? It’ll happen in our lifetimes, sure, but not right now

            Also, look up lakh and crore if you want to think you’re having a stroke