Huh. Based on this online calculator(https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator), if i earn £5000 everyday in 1493(Cuntopher Columbus start his slave trading voyage in 1492 i think), i would have £1,825,000, which in today money is roughly £1,813,589,780.47, that's just for a single year.

Kinda made me the richest immortal in the world.

[–] disrupted@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

that is obviously just an analogy for the huge time span. $5000/day meaning at the current value

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, under those conditions you'd have about $969 million: 531 years since 1493. $5000 x 365 = $1825000 per year x 531 = $969,075,000

According to this article Jeff Bezos makes $595,728,000 a week (holy shit), so even if you were Methuselah earning $5000 a day, he'd still have more money than you after two weeks 😱

[–] termain@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

As in Jeff Bezos's assetts appreciate at 600M a day. To reiterate the OP's point.

That is a dangerous amount of power concentration.

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