[brownegg]

If it's $862m, last I checked, it will take them about 30 hours to bring in the necessary revenue--if they want to pay out of profits (I'm totally guessing here, what are real net margins on their hardware? 15-20%?), it'll take a couple days.

[bshimmin]

Man, that's such a humbling stat. Many of us here don't even earn that in a year!

[chucknelson]

$862 million?

> Man, that's such a humbling stat. Many of us here don't even earn that in a lifetime!

FTFY

Unless I missed the /s ;)

[delecti]

Even more exaggerated than that. Many families don't earn that across several generations. That's about 17,000 years at $50,000/year. At 40 years of working life, you'd need over 400 people.

[beeboop]

The combined income earned by anyone in the entirety of history who is the least bit related to me, adjusted for PPP, probably does not equal $800MM+.

[Dylan16807]

Is this a weird meta-joke where you pretend to miss the joke?

[TwiztidK]

We're also talking about one of the largest companies in the world, so it's really not that shocking.

[Kristine1975]

And Apple saves a lot of money by not paying taxes /s

[SG-]

Oh it's just Apple?

[Kristine1975]

No of course not. There's also Facebook, Amazon etc. etc. etc. But the article is about Apple.

[wang_li]

Don't forget UWisc!

[desireco42]

this is the best! I certainly don't make this much in a year.

[maxerickson]

It would take ~8 days of net income (they declared $10 billion of net income in the most recently reported quarter).