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Topic	If you earn a million per year it'd still take 1000 years to be a billionaire
darkknight109 04/08/24 9:11:43 PM #10:	Zareth posted... That made me realize that a billionaire could easily do the same thing with real life money. "Oh look at these supercars, let's see, I'll take that one, that one, that one, that one..." The way that conceptualized it for me was that you can easily understand how life looks like to a billionaire by just adjusting the prices of everything around you. Like, let's put the "average" billionaire pay at $600 million a year - that's about 10,000 times the average US annual salary. So in order to figure out how much something costs to a billionaire, pretend you're an average Joe and divide the cost of anything by 10,000. Ultra-luxury hotel room? Those can be $10,000 a night; to a billionaire, that costs $1 a night. High-end Lambo? The Aventador SVJ Roadster starts at $575,000 - to our billionaire, that's like spending $57.50. Luxury property? $100 mil will get you into the top 25 most expensive properties on the planet; to our billionaire, that's a $10,000 purchase - certainly not something you're doing on the daily, but doable with some saving and planning. Executive assistant to run your life for you? Pay her the equivalent of $20 a year and you're set. Want a private jet to travel the world in style? For somewhere between $2,000 and $10,000 (plus maintenance and salaries that will wind up being a couple bucks a year to you), it's yours. Perhaps you're the philanthropic sort and want a building named after you? Shell out ~$10,000 and you can buy a decent new hospital for a community in need. It gets kind of unreal when you start putting real numbers to it. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! <cite>darkknight109 posted [p:979812028] in If you ear... [t:80740669]...</cite> <quote>Zareth posted... </cite><quote>That made me realize that a billionaire could easily do the same thing with real life money. "Oh look at these supercars, let's see, I'll take that one, that one, that one, that one..."</quote>The way that conceptualized it for me was that you can easily understand how life looks like to a billionaire by just adjusting the prices of everything around you.Like, let's put the "average" billionaire pay at $600 million a year - that's about 10,000 times the average US annual salary. So in order to figure out how much something costs to a billionaire, pretend you're an average Joe and divide the cost of anything by 10,000. Ultra-luxury hotel room? Those can be $10,000 a night; to a billionaire, that costs $1 a night. High-end Lambo? The Aventador SVJ Roadster starts at $575,000 - to our billionaire, that's like spending $57.50. Luxury property? $100 mil will get you into the top 25 most expensive properties on the planet; to our billionaire, that's a $10,000 purchase - certainly not something you're doing on the daily, but doable with some saving and planning. Executive assistant to run your life for you? Pay her the equivalent of $20 a year and you're set. Want a private jet to travel the world in style? For somewhere between $2,000 and $10,000 (plus maintenance and salaries that will wind up being a couple bucks a year to you), it's yours. Perhaps you're the philanthropic sort and want a building named after you? Shell out ~$10,000 and you can buy a decent new hospital for a community in need.It gets kind of unreal when you start putting real numbers to it. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster.Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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