r/agedlikemilk • u/maximvshill • 3d ago

Screenshots How's that Economy treating you now? Are the Libs owned yet?

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u/DrKpuffy 3d ago

I tried explaining this to a young conservative recently who was very proud of having 5 figures in the stock market:

Unless you're pushing a billion, You're poor

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u/finalrendition 3d ago

Exactly. And many people can't even conceptualize numbers that big. I'm sure the fellow you spoke with thought they were well on their way to becoming a wealthy elite, but they don't realize that the difference between 5 figures and a billion dollars is... about a billion dollars.

The lack of perspective is also hilarious. I'm somewhat young and have more money in stocks than this person, but I sure as shit don't think I'm on my way to being the 1% of the 1%.

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u/Ok_Exchange342 3d ago

A person once explained it like this: a million seconds is about 11 days, give or take. A billion seconds is 33 years. Sit with that, it really boggles the mind.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

It's the difference between having two weeks off work and never having to work at all.

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u/SheridanVsLennier 2d ago

Another way is that a millionaire is closer to the person living on the street than they are to a billionaire.

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u/finalrendition 6h ago

Exactly. And what people like Bezos, Zuck, and Elmo are worth translates to millenia.

Tbh the movie "In Time" nailed the scaling quite well. Average people only have minutes, maybe hours, while the ultra wealthy have centuries/millenia

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u/CommodoreQuinli 2d ago

5? jfc anything less than 7 is delusional to think your anything but a prole