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[-] Steve@communick.news 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 24 points 1 month ago

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 12 points 1 month ago

it’s balanced out by the fake estate business

a true yin to its yang

[-] pticrix@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Huh when did a standard investment system like that start

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 16 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I thought his union didn't like him

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It even started a Civil War!

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

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 12 points 1 month ago

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

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] texture@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

we dont talk about jc here

[-] cuchi@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What you mean? Pike is christian.

[-] texture@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] dan69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

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 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Legal thieves, and their kin.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Non-sense. Just be born rich, stupid.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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