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Elon Musk is now a trillionaire. How much is a trillion really? (liberationnews.org)
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/57347

No individual should be allowed to accumulate a billion dollars worth of wealth, much less a trillion. That wealth is created by working people, and it is our right to put that wealth under the democratic control of working people.

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[-] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's funny that the first trillionaire is a guy that pays people to help him trick people into thinking he's good at video games and pretends to be both his mom and his dad, and that they talk, like they're not estranged, on twitter. His personal life appears to be mostly fraud but I'm sure his business life is all honest and smart decisions right? The bourgeoisie are probably all more like him than they are like us. To be so pathologically committed to fucking people over if it will make you even a single dollar richer... The bourgeoise are bugs and Elon is the bug of all bugs.

[-] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

Not actually reading the article but an easy way to illustrate how ludicrous this is, a millionaire has proportionally the same wealth to him as a guy with only one or two dollars is to a millionaire.

[-] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 6 points 22 hours ago

If you earned a million dollars every second, it would still take you (nearly) 12 days to equal his wealth.

If you earned a million every year, for a million years, you would have 1 trillion. 1 million years ago hominids had just figured out routine use of firemaking/keeping. Neanderthals had yet to develop. Human "behavioral modernity" is still around 900,000 years away.

If you earned a "more reasonable" 100k a year, it would take 10 million years. 10 million years ago is around the time humans, chimps, and bonobos split from gorrilas. The chimp-human divergance is ~2 million years away.

If you are more of a biblical literalist and the earth is ~6000 years old: You would need to earn over 166,000,000 every year from the time big G rested on sunday till now to earn the same amount.

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

It's a million million. Meaning if you had a 7 figure job earning $1 million a year, you'd have to work that job for a million years make a trillion

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

His existence is a global security threat.

[-] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

money is fake

[-] larrikin99@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

It's a lakh crore.

[-] ephemeral@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

a trillion dollars? yeah well I have a trillion poopoo peepee bux™, a currency that I just made up which has the same intrinsic value as the U.S. dollar

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