when I was in high school my AP english teacher told us we weren’t allowed to eat in class so I took that as a personal challenge to see what the most ridiculous thing I could eat in class without getting caught was so I started bringing soup to class and as soon as I’d crack the lid of my thermos the tiniest bit this football player that sat like 3 rows in front of me would going “I SMELL MEAT SOMEONE HAS SOUP” and no one ever believed him
At least Bill Gates chilled out and gave away some money when he neared $100 billion, Jeff Bezos is just out here raking in cash and donating nothing
100 BILLION
WHAT THE FUCK
Jeff Bezos has $105 billion now lol
literally was does one do with all that money literally nobody can even spend that much money in a lifetime
If Jeff Bezos spent ten million dollars every single day it would take him 27 years to get down to his last million
Yeah no, this is a perfect example of what they don’t teach in schools about the wealthy and the “capital” part of capitalism. (Or compound interest but ehhh I’ll simplify)
Let’s start with the most ridiculously conservative version of where Jeff Bezos keeps his money. (Also let’s lose a quick $5b and say he has $100b rather than $105b, for simplicity.) Now, let’s say he keeps $100b in a savings account that earns 1% interest, compounded annually.
(Let me make it clear that both the rate and the percentage are ridiculously low and nobody would do this ever, especially with one hundred billion dollars. This is for educational purposes only.)
So, that means, at the end of the year, he’ll have “earned” a billion dollars just for having this much money in this particular savings account.
I put quote marks around “earned” because he didn’t work for it. He got money for having money. HE GOT A BILLION DOLLARS FOR HAVING A HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. (And again I remind you that this is the absolutely ridiculous lowest version for explanation’s sake.)
So in this example, if he spends $10m a day for a year, that’s $3b650m he spends in one year. BUT HE “EARNS” BACK A BILLION DOLLARS JUST FOR HAVING MONEY. So he actually only spent $2b650m. (Again, these are not the real numbers; I’m simplifying.) So your span of time has to be much, much longer than 27 years. It’s not that straightforward.
BUT! Jeff Bezos doesn’t keep his $105b in a 1%/yr savings account. He has a diverse portfolio, high-yield interest investments, most likely offshore accounts (I can’t remember if he was in the Panama Papers or not), etc. So if the lowest possible example has him “earning” a billion dollars a year just because he has money, imagine what he’s “earning” just because he has money in a diversified portfolio where he’s getting way, way more than 1% back annually.
He could spend, as the above comment says, ten million dollars every single day, and literally make it all back plus a whole lot more. He would never run out of money.
Try to understand the evils of capitalism here.
A person with $100 billion could spend $10 million a day, every day, for his whole life, and that person would die with more moneythan they hadwhen they began spending $10 million a day.
Extra credit: find out how much the people who work in the Amazon shipping centers are making. Let those figures sit in your brain for a few days. You get 5 extra credit points if your head doesn’t explode.
there was always that one kid in fifth grade who had like 50 of those little novelty erasers that they’d take out and arrange on their desk every single lesson but never use and if you even LOOKED at them you were immediately blacklisted as a potential threat from then on
me: hey i forgot my eraser do you have one i could use
the kid sitting next to me with an entire fucking zoo of rubber animals in their pencil case:
The reason lifting weights helps treat depression is because you don’t just work out your muscles. You also exercise the ability to dispense motivation. Build up your power to motivate yourself, you’ll find yourself doing little things that need to be done. It’s not perfect, and it can be a really slow start, but it really does help.
It’s a lot easier to lift a dumbbell a few times than it is to clean your room, but if you push yourself to lift it you will find it easier to push yourself to organize your stuff or do the dishes.
Also you can punch harder.
learning the longsword turned me from a depressed atheist to a god-fearing maniac with a lust for crack and driving 110mph everywhere
