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[–] Steve@communick.news 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Maybe if you saved it all in cash. But who does that?
If you invested the first $100k and earned a very modest 4%/year. After 2000 years you'd have $1,165,946,431,999,999,965,770,988,108,697,149,898,752

[–] 1dalm@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is my go to evidence that the whole beliefs that real estate values always increase is absurd.

If real estate prices always increase, even modestly, then an apartment in Rome or Paris would cost hundreds of trillions of dollars. Obviously that's not the case, and since land speculation isn't exactly a new thing, there is a correction somewhere.

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago

it’s balanced out by the fake estate business

a true yin to its yang

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

On the flip side if you invested in the equivalent of the Roman SNP500 you'd indeed have a gazillion denariuses.

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

what's the euro to sesterce exchange rate these days?

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Huh when did a standard investment system like that start

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He was more than a Q. He was a union man.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought his union didn't like him

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol. And yet it was still difficult for them to fire him!

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It even started a Civil War!

And that was fixed by a good shagging. Well not that good. And not really a shagging.

Eh, you get what I mean.

[–] ashenone@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Jesus would open a whip braiding co-op if he heard that stat

That's not so long! Passover was just a week ago.... Oh... Oh jesus

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yo I need money. But not money saved since Jesus..

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But with all that money, why would you care whose ahead and behind you... And do they care about that, or is that just a narrative we've bought into, something to make us feel a certain way about the wealthy being unpleasant?

[–] SparroHawc@piefed.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It's not a question of who's in front of or behind you. It's realizing that even if you received a ludicrous amount of money, repeatedly, over a ludicrous amount of time, it still wouldn't even scratch the utter lunacy that is the wealth of the ultra-rich. There is no way to earn that amount of wealth, in the sense of how you and I earn money. They acquired it by taking unjustly; there is no just way to become that wealthy.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Legal thieves, and their kin.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Non-sense. Just be born rich, stupid.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is how the vaat majority of wealthy people acquired the vast majority of their money. There was a study recently.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No shit, I was using the royal "you" to wonder about the already wealthy. What goes on in their heads.

[–] texture@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

we dont talk about jc here

[–] cuchi@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What you mean? Pyke is christian.

[–] krisevol@lemmy.zip -4 points 1 week ago

This isn't true, because billionaires don't have a billion dollars.