Perspective
Last night, some of the guys I work with and I had a conversation about Millionaires which eventually turned to Billionaires and how much damage we could do with that much money.
That got me thinking, how much money is that really? Let’s put it into perspective. If we converted these figures into time:
- 1 Million seconds equal 11½ days
- 1 Billion seconds equal 31¾ years
- 1 Trillion seconds equal 31,710 years
Every year Forbes magazine releases their ” The World’s Richest People” list and Bill Gates topped the list for the fourteenth consecutive year. In 2006, his estimated net worth was 50 Billion dollars! Just so you can visualize that: $50,000,000,000.
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Consider that he made this money in the 31 years or so since Microsoft was founded in 1975. If you assume that he has worked 14 hours a day on every business day of the year since then, that means he’s been making around million dollars per hour, around $300 per second.
Which means that if, on his way into the office and he dropped a $1,000 bill on the ground, it’s not worth his time to bend over and pick it up (we’re assuming about 4 seconds to bend down and pocket the bill).
He would make more just heading off to work.
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