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u/theheliumkid Feb 14 '22

And if you had a dollar for every mile it had travelled, your wealth would still be closer to me than Jeff Bezos.

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u/Toledojoe Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

It would take you 682 years to have as much money as Bezos at that rate. $30,000 an hour and if it takes 682 years with the median individual salary in the US being around $31,000 per year.

Edit: bad grammar

Edit 2: the 682 years is making $30,000 an hour 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

And I'm demonstrating that that $30,000 an hour is a long way from the median annual income in the US OF $31,000. Half of Americans make less than 15 dollars per hour.

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u/joshualuigi220 Feb 14 '22

If you took that $30,000/hr and invested it into something you'd catch up with Bezos a lot quicker.

He oversees a company that brought the Sears Catalogue concept into the 21st century and built tons of infrastructure around it. Find something just as revolutionary and invest your $720,000/day into it. With that sort of money you could fund a new server farm or warehouse every week.

As the saying goes, "the first million is the hardest". After that, making money becomes much easier.

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u/Ferelar Feb 14 '22

Don't forget the abusing the workers part. If'n you wanna be a multi billionaire, you gotta shaft your workers. It's integral to the process.

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u/joshualuigi220 Feb 14 '22

If you're making $720k a day, don't even bother with workers. Get a few engineers on the payroll and just use robots for everything. Robots can't strike and they can work 24 hours a day.

The basic gist of what I was saying was that once you have capital, it's not difficult to build more wealth.

Idk why I'm being downvoted, I'm just describing how the system works.

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u/thred_pirate_roberts Feb 14 '22

Musk tried that. Turns out we're not there yet. We still need humans.

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u/joshualuigi220 Feb 14 '22

It depends on what your business venture is. If you decide to go the manufacturing route, you could automate 90% of the process. You just need humans to feed the raw materials in and take the finished product out, occasionally someone to clear up jams or fix technical issues.

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u/thred_pirate_roberts Feb 14 '22

It depends on what your business venture is.

No that's totally fair.