• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Think how truly life changing it would be, if $1m just popped into your bank account one day - you could pay off your mortgage, buy a new car, start a business, or take your family on a vacation to remember.

    Mark Zuckerberg could do that each and every single day of the year

    36 times over…

    just from a 5% return on his current net worth!

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      3 days ago

      And if you worked from 16 til retirement (67 ish in more and more countries), 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, having a few weeks off…

      and earnt $1,000,000 (1 million) an hour – you’d still not have earnt 1/3rd of what Musk has.

      For comparison, most in “rich” countries, earn $15-60 an hour.

      The truly rich countries are those where the wage slave system as a concept is entirely abolished, in favour of a gift economy.

      Richness is measured not in dollars, euros, or even renminbi; but in the availability of basic needs such as food, water, housing, education, and a healthy environment.