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Do you make $5,000/day?
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Yes, it's equally as unrealistic as leaving money idle for 532 yrs.
The only point I was making was that multiplying $5,000 a day by so many years is a silly comparison as it ignores the dominating factors to building wealth.
Billionaires shouldn't exist but also they don't exist because they stuff X dollars under their mattress every day.
Sure.
It ignores the existence of wealth by focusing on income. And it neglects where income comes from.
Something of a joke about the modern billionaire is how much debt they're carrying around. You don't become a billionaire by having a high salary. You become a billionaire by getting access to enormous volumes of low interest credit, in order to monopolize a limited stock of productive capital. It isn't like being an employee with a sky-high salary so much as it is a member of an elite club with access to amenities nobody else is allowed to use.