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by abvdasker 2388 days ago
Nobody earns a billion dollars.

People who take your view that billionaires deserve their money because they "work hard" -- and I'm sure some of them do work hard -- usually don't realize how much money a billion dollars really is. An individual could never work hard enough or long enough or smart enough to deserve that amount of money.

- A million seconds ago was 12 days ago. A billion seconds ago was the 80s.

- With a 5% return on their wealth -- most billionaires actually make closer to 10% returns -- you make $137,000 a day if you have a billion dollars. So the poorest billionaires make more money in a day than 99% of Americans make in an entire year.

- https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/you-have-no-idea-how-m...

Nobody should have that much money. Nobody.