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Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.
You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.
That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”
Its mind bending to even think about that much/many of anything. Seeing it visualized is staggering.
Here's an even better visualization: https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
It boggles the mind. Maddening stuff.
Source? I'm sure it's mostly true but this is something even my MAGA family might get upset over. Why the fuck does a guy who's basically made his fortune off federal funding get to say what "waste" is?
Its behind an account signup but that one off the bat
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-says-elon-musks-businesses-150042117.html
That's a reference to the original. Some of it is loans but yeah. Seems a little wild doesn't it? I find it even more alarming the power he's been given over the agencies that are supposed to regulate his businesses.
There's a more shareable version of the wapo article.
The homie, thank you.
He's using that money to buy the government! Swing and roundabouts innit ...
Take it ALL back, and nationalize Space X. Shut down everything else.