Visualizing Jeff Bezos Wealth

Getting people to understand how rich the ultra-wealthy are is hard. This is one of the better and informative ways I have seen:

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Another way of thinking about it: let’s be really really generous and say you earn $3,000 per hour. Yes, three thousand dollars per hour.

And because you are so awesome, you are capable of working 24 hours per day, 365 days a year. No breaks, no vacations. And even better, all your expenses are paid for so you can save every dollar.

How long would you have to work to have earned as much as Jeff Bezos is worth?

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Over five thousand years, 24/7/365.