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Ya, 1 billion dollars. But what is it really?
I see homeless going through the dumpsters regularly in my neighborhood. I always think "how close am I to being there?" Currently I estimate about 6 months without any income and I would be there. Today I thought, "how long for a billionaire?" At the same expense rate, a billionaire could go for 50,000 years of no income before they were homeless.
Crazy.
Edit - was off by a zero. It would take 50,000 years not 5,000 for the billionaire to go homeless.

3catwoman3
(26,164 posts)...perspective. It could make a good visual aid/graphic.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,701 posts)He was talking about how much money had to be on the ground before he would bend over and pick it up.
A penny? Nope
A Nickel? Probably not.
A Dime? Closer.
Fifteen cents? Borderline.
A Quarter? Yeah, Neil would bend over for a quarter. So he compared that to his annual salary.
Then he did the math and compared his result with the net worth of Bill Gates.
He figured there would have to be $47,000 on the ground before Bill would bend over and pick it up!
Skittles
(161,839 posts)see a penny, pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck
Cleita
(75,480 posts)U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)Never mind, I'm sure a homeless man would get the same opportunity.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)
U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)Never mind all of history.
BTW, where was your pro-polygamy stance BEFORE the SCOTUS ruling?
Please link.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)in that post.
The trolls are folks who decided SUDDENLY to advocate for polygamy.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)It was a post of support for gay marriage, to counter the bullshit theme of "all new poly marriage people are bigoted against gays." Leave me alone, this OP has ZERO to do with the subject you are trolling about. Bring it up in a pertinent thread.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)I have seven wives.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)If you had a regular office color laser printer that could print on both sides of the paper, and you could print four $100 bills per sheet, it would take a century and a half to print out the Koch brother's fortune.
Just ponder that for a while. A Ricoh printer humming away since the Civil War, and all that output going to two people.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)"Why do we allow this?" while others are homeless and/or starving is the next question.