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[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago

There is no mathematical way for his work to be worth 5 billion, not even if he had magical powers and turned the whole garden into pure gold in the process. Not if he worked for 500 years straight, every day, without a break.

A billion is such a fantastically large number people can’t relate to how much more it is than any normal job pays in wages.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

He worked and apparently someone valued his work plus presence plus...😉 For billions. He won it.

If you can get paid for your efforts, your product, and someone values it, then that's what it's worth.

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