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Imagine being that rich and spending the limited time you have on Earth actively trying to make more money. It's absolutely mental illness!

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[–] teft@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

spend all that money in a lifetime

In thousands of lifetimes. 1,000,000 per year is a stupid amount of money to live on. If you "only" spent $1,000,000 a year you could live on 250billion for 250,000 years. That isn't including any interest accrued.

People constantly underestimate how large a billion actually is.

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A million heartbeats is 10 days. A billion is 27 years

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That's going to change a lot from person to person

Edit. Lol downvoting facts. Feels like reddit here. Congratulations!

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Maybe billionaires just have faster heart rates

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

The difference between a million and a billion dollars is approximately 1 billion dollars