Math Of Rich Versus Poor

Too many people in this country defend the profits of the rich. They claim it would not be right to limit their profits. Really?

This is an indication that they truly have no concept of numbers. Just what it really means to be a billionaire and how far removed billionaires are from real life.

So here it is in real terms.

$1 million is noted as $1,000,000.

Hence, if you make $50,000 a year you would have to work 20 years to make $1 million.

By contrast, $1 billion is noted as $1,000,000,000. Because $1 billion is $1 million times one thousand.

Hence, if you make $50,000 a year then you would have to work 20,000 years to make $1 billion. This is not a typo. You would have to work twenty thousand years to make $1 billion.

Jeff Bezos has $150 billion. So, if you make $50,000 a year, to make the same amount of money that he has at this moment, you would have to work 3,000,000 years. Yes, that is three million years.

I feel pretty secure in my statement that he could part with some of his wealth and not feel any pain.

Just as I feel secure in stating that he is not creating any jobs. I’m serious. He does not create a single job at all. Neither does Walmart. Because retail jobs existed before Amazon or Walmart. Production, warehousing and shipping jobs existed before these companies and would continue to exist if these companies (or those like them) did not exist at all…