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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

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Matthew Selheimer @mselheimer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This also translates to burning $700 every minute or about $11 every second. For 693 years!!!

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billtbns.bsky.social @billtbns.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Only an uncivil society allows billionaires to exist.

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bxbx4.bsky.social @bxbx4.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The good thing is it's all on paper...it was all generated out of thin air

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Data4Miles @datafourmiles.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

They are at the point where they could set $10M on fire each day and never run out of money.

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Chris Kantarjiev @kantarjiev.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

He could do it forever, because he's earning at least that much interest a day.

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Prologue Black @prologueblack.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I think it's because of the shorthand we have to do. $253.2 billion and $253.2 million look like similar numbers but are nowhere near each other

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X&der @x---factor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

this is absolutely how we should talk about money and concentration of wealth!!!!

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jkes805.bsky.social @jkes805.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I love how this video puts it in perspective. Truly changed the way I look at numbers… m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr1A...

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How big is a billion? (No, it's bigger than that!)

YouTube video by TechLaboratories

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Except that he's making more than that in interest so it wouldn't ever end.

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necromaunzer.bsky.social @necromaunzer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Once again: the difference between a million and a billion is roughly one billion. A million seconds is eleven and a half days. A billion seconds is 31 and a half years.

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Iowa Guy @iowaguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It is pretty crazy how rich he and other ultra-wealthy people are. I've worked with people who I would consider very rich, I'm talking multi-million dollar a year salaries. They want for nothing. And they are still magnitudes poorer than Bezos.

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Rosanna Landis Weaver @landisweaver.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

That's basically what he did with the Melania movie.

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“Eerie Pall” gHostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And at the end of 693 years (which is the equivalent of from today going back to before the Renaissance) he would probably have more wealth than he does today.

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Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

smh

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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And yet he's scrambling and groveling to Trump for more.

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Madame Decadent Sneezy-Bottom @darklyadapted.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Don't put ideas in his head.

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

and that wouldn't even keep up with the interest

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Join the Mass Infection Resistance @spiritsofland.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Eat the rich

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Andrew C 💯 @arc315.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If he makes merely 2% interest on his hoard annually he would gain over $13m/day, so after burning a million he’d still be up $12m.

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Margaret Wilson @magsw001.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Regardless, for these billionaires, no amount of money will ever be enough.

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Robbie Bettelon @robbiebettelon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

What put it into perspective for me: - 1 million seconds is roughly 11.6 days - 1 billion seconds is roughly 31.7 years ALMOST THIRTY TWO YEARS. And that’s only one billion - so multiply that by 253 to get Bezos’ time equivalency. It’s so large it’s impossible to comprehend.

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mstriplewillows.bsky.social @mstriplewillows.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Wow… Mind blowing!

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ms m @msmeredith.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

the grossest

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workout jeans @shyhumble.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is the kind of thing that communism was created to stop

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Jermonter @jermonter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

If you stacked that net worth up as $1 bills, it’s a pile over 17,000 miles tall.

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Shauna @shaunahaymond.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

You could take away 99% and he’d still be a billionaire

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ThunderOwl @thunderowl.one · 04/02/2026

To get that cash, he would need to sell assets. As he starts to sell, his "worth" starts to fall. Still, I agree it is beyond ridiculous, all those B-s.

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Lost Sierra Jim @jmidnight.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Sorta pertinent. Just ran across this from Larry Summers in the Epstein files: "Progressive taxes give rewards to losers by asking them to pay less." We are all losers you see. People like Bezos are not and so should have all the money to keep it from the losers.

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mikerevolution.bsky.social @mikerevolution.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This site does a good job: eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

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Wealth, shown to scale

Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.

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fat-n-old.bsky.social @fat-n-old.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The problem for most is math. When most people read one million, they think "whatever". Instead of, "I make 50k a year before tax. It takes me 10 years to make half a million. I have to work 20 years to a million" 1 billion takes 20,000 years. You know, nearly 18,000 BC start and you'd have 1b

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Chozang @chozang.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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a cartoon of robin hood leaning against a tree with an arrow in his hat

ALT: a cartoon of robin hood leaning against a tree with an arrow in his hat

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dpptphd.bsky.social @dpptphd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It has been much easier for me to come to terms with the irrational nature of the uber wealthy by recategorizing what they’re doing. Their wealth accumulation is not logical/need-based, it is worship. Hat tip: Timothy Keller for that insight.

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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 04/02/2026

@earlefordfl.bsky.social

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I ironically, you yourself have failed to understand the problem in that you believe that setting $1 million on fire a day could *ever* reduce his pile to zero, which is simply not true when he “earns” well over $1 million a day from the interest and dividends.

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Mark Bare @markbare54.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Perhaps we should stop using the term billion. People don't understand big numbers. Maybe say 253,000 million dollars?

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

with his $253.2 billion, Jeff Bezos could afford to pay 100 sportswriters $100,000 a year for the next 25,000 years

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cheezeofages @cheezeofages.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And the most critical point: most of the evils of capitalism are done because they can't guarantee if money goes back to the poor it will come back to them ap they take the coward route. Bezos did the correct thing and spread his money into many things so more of the money will come back to him...

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Maarten D. @orwall.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

That’s how much Bezos’ membership of Goebbels-Miller’s Reichspressekammer is hence worth. Fascism hates free press.

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Skippy @jwheat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

He could also spend $1000 per second 24/7 and it would take just under 8000 years to go broke.

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Watchlist Samantha @maydayze.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Or he could make 25k people millionaires

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David Berry @huckleberry127.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

@designmom.bsky.social — this feels like the simple way you would explain to me that something is INSANE

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harleycat24.bsky.social @harleycat24.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I agree that people don’t have a proper concept of what it is to be a billionaire. One easily digested explanation that I stumbled upon: One million seconds = approx 11 days. One billion seconds = approx 32 years. Think about that and how it may warp the worldview of a billionaire.

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Kyle Rozencraft @rozencraft.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

True Grift

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RoLynn @16rolynn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

He has so much money that money is basically meaningless to him.

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Mary @maryhruth.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The definition of obscenity.

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icastorm @icastorm.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is also how Republicans get away with pretending to be deficit conscious while slashing popular and effective programs that only cost a few million dollars a year. A million is basically a billion which is basically a trillion, right?

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Except that, on average, wealth for this class increases at 10% a year. So burning $365M year and living to whatever expenses he incurs, he'll STILL COME OUT AHEAD.

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/02/2026

If someone gave you a dollar every second since Thursday, July 4, 5999 BC, you’d be alllllmost as rich

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Joe ⚓️ @cpo-joe.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Take a lot less time if he paid 1,000 people, $1,000,000 each, to blaze all that cash.

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Yes, and he paid $250M for the WaPo and it loses say $100M per year. 1) That's couch cushion change for him, and 2) he makes billions for being part of the RW oligarchy. That makes up for the WaPo losses by an order of magnitude. Bottom line - he just *does not care* about the WaPo. His main /1

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szuejuhasz.bsky.social @szuejuhasz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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Clay McReynolds @claymcreynolds.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Actually he could probably do that every year forever.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I did a quick calc this morning. Bezos tossing $75,000,000 at the Melania movie is equivalent to the median American family spending $53 for a night out. JeffyB burning through 75 MIL = Couple not-fancy burgers and 2 movie tickets to you and me. That's how easy it is for him to buy Trump's favor.

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mavis84.bsky.social @mavis84.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

That’s his worth, not his wealth, very different.

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Sirius F @siriusface.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Billionaires should not exist. It's mentally damaging to be that rich, to be so utterly above 99% of your fellow humans. There is no reason to be a billionaire. No one needs billions to survive, or to simply live.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We don’t do a very good job of explaining what money is either. That $253 billion is just the size of the pond he is skimming. He can’t burn the cash because he hasn’t got it. It’s about power not the number of commas. He can’t burn torch it all pretty fast. How much did he pay for WaPo?

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Redruckus81 @redruckus81.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

He could lose 99.99% of his net worth and still never have to work a day for the rest of his life

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JAN13 @jans13.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

He is doing that but he calls it Blue Origin

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timpfaff.bsky.social @timpfaff.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

One of the unsung negative outcomes of the 2008 crisis was that billion became a small number, to throw around likerice.

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MeLD @misword.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

right. the goal would be to make such level of obscene and unassailable wealth irrelevant to world governance. but we cannot even seem make it matter only slightly less.

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Redbeez @redbeez.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Whatever. The takeaway should be: IT’S TOO MUCH. Are we not onto the scam yet? IT’S STEALING FROM THE COMMONS. He did not earn it. It belongs to the workers he abuses. We take it back. Like all the other times in history when the disgustingly depraved “elite” parasites decided to feed on the people…

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MrInsecure @mrinsecure.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The most expensive movie ever made, supposedly, is Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, with an estimated budget of $490 million. With that money, Jeff Bezos could make 500 Rise of Skywalkers, paying entirely out of pocket, and still have a couple billion left in pocket change.

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Antiwar Mayor of the Moon @moonmayor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The Voyager 1 probe has traveled about 16 billion miles in the past 40 some years. Jeff Bezos has multiple more billions than that. More billions than the furthest man made object in history

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Wonder Mutt @wondermutt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

His ex wife ended the marriage with $35.6 billion. She has given away billions and is worth something like $40 billion today. WTF do we need billionaires? We all just need cost of living raises instead.

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4653ingCA 🍁 @leslie4653.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Well, at least his ex wife is distributing his alimony $$$$$ wisely.

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Daemionfox @daemionfox.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And that's without adding anymore money to his pile

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Gggfxc @samklein3.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

this every day

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the joker is standing in front of a wall of flames

ALT: the joker is standing in front of a wall of flames

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Wikipedia Brown @theycallhimbfg.blacksky.app · 05/02/2026

bsky.app/profile/they... I broke down some numbers last night as well.

Wikipedia Brown@theycallhimbfg.blacksky.app

The average person won't make $70 million in 25 lifetimes. No. Literally. The average American made $67,000 in 2025. If you simply made that every year for 40 years (no inflation or anything; just work with me) you get $2.68M. Multiply *that* x25 and you get $67 million.

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East Coast J @jrhanlon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Not to diminish his wealth, per se, he’s rich as fuck and very powerful because of it. But ya’ll know he doesn’t actually have that amount in liquidity, right? Like my net worth is hundreds of thousands of dollars because of my home but I don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"But you just can't tax the wealth because _______"

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Giant Space Ants @spaceants.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If it cost a million dollars to go 1 mile, most of us could never leave the town where we live. Bezos could go around the entire circumference of the Earth 10 times and still have 4 billion dollars left over.

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jimbo67.bsky.social @jimbo67.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I put it this way. Get one of those casino apps that gives you 200 billion to start with. The minimum bet is 300 million and you can play forever.

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serialtwo_six @serial26.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

with 253 billion you could light money on fire at a rate of a million dollars a minute for almost 6 months straight

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Vickilou92 🫘🫛 @vickilou.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Much of that is paper money based on so-called values of his companies.

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Jack’s Complete Lack of Surprise @norvillebarnes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It’s more than $500,000 for every American citizen & all aliens (legal and legal). Except it’s not actually real $$. It’s leverage capital and stock valuation. Not a bank account. He can’t really spend it… he just has to convince people it’s really there.

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Ozhole @ozhole.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

what abt w/interest? 🤔

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David Harris @davidsp72.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We need serious numbers contextualizing everywhere! People don’t think in numbers these huge and need the analogous scale. Same with budget reporting: USAID costs about $80 billion/year, or roughly 1% of the annual budget. People see $80B and think “holy shit!” when it actually isn’t “holy shit.”

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415guy.bsky.social @415guy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I don't know man, that doesn't seem to be enough money. If it were me, I'd need the ability to torch about $1 million a day for the next 700 years to feel secure. I mean you saw the price of eggs, right?

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

People really don't get orders of magnitude.

How much is a billion compared a million
1 million seconds about 12 days
1 billion seconds about 32 years
1 million minutes ago was 2 years ago
1 billion minutes ago was the year 114AD
1 million hours ago it was the dawn of the 20th century (1901)
1 billion hours ago was around the time we think the first modern humans walked 141,000 year ago
1 million days ago it was about 700BC
1 billion days ago was 2.7 million years BC

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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

What USA thinks it's #1 in (and its actual rankings): Life Expectancy: 46th FreePress: 42nd Healthcare: 30th Education: 26th Happiness: 23rd Freedom: 17th What the USA is #1 in: Military Spending Number of Billionaires Incarceration Bankruptcy filings Medical debt Gun deaths Funding israel

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Dawn Alene @dawnalene.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

IOW “money to burn”

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Bolo Boffin @boloboffin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And with interest payments, he wouldn't even lose money on the act. He'd still have hundreds of billions of dollars in year 694.

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aunt witchy @witchywomin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Maybe he should oh I don’t know set himself on fire instead? He’s a traitor.

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maticsteve @maticsteve.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Musk "bought" Trump with the change in his pocket, $293M.

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Bat🦇herine🦇 @katvanzan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Thanks for doing the math, so i didn't have to.

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𝚁𝚊𝚢𝟶𝚏𝚂𝚞𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚎🇺🇦✊ @realroffs.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is my dream for all of them.💭

e.w. niedermeyer @niederme... • 4d this is the dream, and it's closer to reality than almost anyone realizes

Das Doak @dasdoak.bs... • 4d
I continue to very firmly believe that Elon Musk will be the first Richest Man in the World to go bankrupt.

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Christian Ashlock @cashlock.com · 04/02/2026

He could buy every NFL team (per Forbes valuations), or the Bengals 50 times

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zneeley25.bsky.social @zneeley25.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Imagine if you were incredibly rich, could give a million dollars to charity every day, and never have less money. Think about how fucking awesome that would feel. These shits have the easiest path to good feelings and want nothing to do with it.

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sicsmprtyrannisrex.bsky.social @sicsmprtyrannisrex.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This could be considered controversial, but I feel like the tone of these comparisons are never quite right. We need to make one of these into a video where a dude gets slammed by hundreds of gallons of water jackass style if we want to break through to the "layman"

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darkwingtwilight.bsky.social @darkwingtwilight.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Anyone ask about money I use the duck sadly the billionaire today are not him youtu.be/p9d8l-Gkweg?...

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Cartoon - Scrooge McDuck and Money (Walt Disney, 1967) [remastered version]

YouTube video by Olivier Bossard on Finance

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Wrycke @wrycke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And of course, it is much worse than this. If that money earns a 3% rare of return, he would need to burn about $21 million per day just to prevent gaining money via interest

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Unbound @unbound55.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

An approach I've used that some people have responded to well is that at $1 / second (or $3,600 / hr), 24 hours a day, you'd make $1 million in ~11.5 days. At that same rate, it'd take you over 3 decades to make $1 billion. To reach Bezo's wealth would take over 8 millennia...at $1/sec.

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fireandwater.bsky.social @fireandwater.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

That is without figuring that the remaining money is still making more money so it would really even longer!

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fragilemachinery.bsky.social @fragilemachinery.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Even that doesn't really capture it, because the big pile of money just keeps making more of itself. Even if he held nothing but super safe 10-yr t-bills paying 4% interest, he'd be earning $10 billion a year, and could burn $25 million a day while still pocketing a cool billion.

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Mike @cmgarciacm.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Also, Amazon has ongoing contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which include over $140 million in technology and cloud services to enhance ICE's operations.

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DJ Jazzy Sweater Vest @craig.agitate-discourse.org · 04/02/2026

The median net worth of a 60 yo in the US is about $360,000. Say it was $500k. A million bucks to Jeff Bezos is $2 of worth to that person.

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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Or by another measure, he could finance the production of a Melania biopic every quarter.

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Maechael1916 (John) @maechael1916.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Better choice, he could set himself on fire just once and the world would improve vastly more. Plus less net carbon pollution that way.

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indivisiblevoc.bsky.social @indivisiblevoc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

So he had to layoff journalists at WAPO? Bastardos todo

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Jeff Holcomb @jeffholcomb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

...and that's before we explain compounding.

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JR @shroomigator.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I like to play this game where I imagine I'm a billionaire, and once or twice a week I take a million and set up a trust, and the interest from that trust is paid into an account that makes a monthly autopay on a rental apartment and puts the rest on a card, and give it to a homeless person

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Me fail English @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Actually, he could do it in perpetuity, because the interest alone on his $253 billion far exceeds one million dollars a day

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Bob Van Brabant @bobvanbrabant.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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scotthoots.bsky.social @scotthoots.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Jeff Bezos could give every American $500 and he would still be in the top 20 richest people on the planet.

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

even better: he could light himself on fire and all his money could be given away

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deon-botl.bsky.social @deon-botl.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And while he did that his net worth would increase

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Rick does Math and Stuff @mathandstuff.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

...and at the end of that time he would be wealthier than he is today.

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Matthew Gyamtso (Jee) @freedomforall.net · 04/02/2026

Yeah, he'd get richer if he did that. The magic of compound interest.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I find it helps to write out the actual number: 253,200,000,000. I had a post to that effect. It really drives the point home when you really see the obscene amount of 0's.

A simple diagram written in black ink on a white background showing various figures.

The first figure reads $16,100,000,000,000 or "$16.1 trillion" the 2025 net worth of the world's 3,028 billionaires.
The second figure reads $342,000,000,000 or "$342 billion, the 2024 net worth of Elno, the world's richest man.
The third figure reads $59,250,000,000 or $59.25 billion, the 2024 (and just '24) net (after costs) income of Amazon. (the company)
The fourth figure reads $1,000,000,000 or "$1 billion", the standard measure of being ultra wealthy.
The fifth figure reads $1,000,000 or "$1 million", the standard measure of being modestly wealthy.
The sixth figure reads $62,192 or "$62.192 thousand", the 2025 average wage of Americans.
The seventh figure reads $49,967" or "$49.967 thousand, the 2025 average wage (in US dollars) of UK residents.
The eighth figure reads $48,374 or "$48.374 thousand", the 2025 average wage (in US dollars) of Canadians.

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toastyloaff.bsky.social @toastyloaff.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And that's if it remains static. He uses his money to make more money.

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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff...

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You Are Jeff Bezos by Kris Lorischild

A Billionaire Simulator

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Mandoline L’engle@jennylawson.bsky.social

The grains of rice explainer on a billion vs a million. This was 4 years ago, so HA HA these guys have so much more money now! Also: each grain of rice equals $100k. Each GRAIN of rice is equal to TWICE what a teacher with 10 yrs experience will earn in NC in 2024-25. (Per dpi.nc.gov)

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Viral TikTok Uses Rice to Show How Rich Jeff Bezos Is | NowThis

YouTube video by NowThis Impact

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

If you really want to work yourself up, just search in bluesky on "billion million" & skim the hits you get. Just those 2 words.

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

If you gave someone $1 million every day since the birth of Jesus Christ, they'd have about $741 billion. But that's still less than Elon Musk, who's currently worth $841 billion, according to Forbes.

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strongest fedykein @artieboucault.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

strongest fedykein@artieboucault.bsky.social

i think its pointless to talk about billionaires as if the cash means anything. we all know each extra zero is the net worth of any given country in the former yugoslav republic. the reason they can’t stand to part with the hoard is because they’re scared it really is a bunch of zeroes on a ledger

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Thomas Ley @thomasley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

He'd need about 30 days of interests, just the banking interests, on his fortune to finance a whole year of Washington Post out of his pocket. If he'd just payed their loss of business it would have been about a week of zero percent interests for him.

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Yeil @celloyeil.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It's a small act but I finally cancelled my Prime membership. I can't stand to see another dollar of mine go into Bezos' pocket

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Make The Planet Great Again... @turquoisemarble.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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wfrankdunn79.bsky.social @wfrankdunn79.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

He could do it forever because the profit on 253 B is at least 10 billion per year

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Travis @travis6595.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

With interest on the $250 billion principle, would he even ever run out of money lighting a million on fire every day? Or would his investment income each year cover the million/day, and then some?

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Steve Pietroske @spietroske.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And that's after he had to give 25% to MacKenzie for the divorce.

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David Blatt @kopfstoff.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Beyond a certain amount of money/power, one probably simply loses touch with humanity. It's a completely parallel world, with parallel rules, limits, and needs.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And there's a good chance that, with interest and appreciation of asseets, etc., he would still have plenty left over.

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mistymeanorhavuk @mistymeanorhavuk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

and that’s without accruing any interest during that 693 years

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ClaireJane5 @clairejane5.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

He could give every person in the world one billion dollars and still have 246 billion for himself.

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Jonathan @shreddread.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I like this one: If you started with 1 billion dollars and spent 1 thousand dollars every single day, you wouldn't run out of money for about 2,700 years.

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Guy ruining Steely Dan for everyone else @artbrovera.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Its a scale thats hard for people to quantify. Like whats a billion grains of rice? 100 years of three square meals of rice.

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Phaserburn @phaserburn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Jeff Bezos has enough money that he could do nothing but set one million dollars of his $253 billion net worth on fire every day for an entire year, and by the end of the year he’d have a net worth of $270.5 billion* *based on average stock market returns

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DGB @just-g.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

You sounds bad when you put it like that.

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Aaron Kashtan @aaronkashtan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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Just Another GenX Heather @hezzair.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We could literally tax Elon Musk 90% of his wealth, and he would still have 80 Billion dollars.

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e.g. Alice Lastname @parttimequeer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

When you can literally afford anything (legal or not) then nothing has value. Every part of your life is effectively disposable. Nothing has consequences. They are ridiculously powerful pampered teenage brats.

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Chris Sipple @camelotoh.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And please help me understand why these oligarchs need the tax breaks.

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Ivan Juarez-Mrazek @mars-blackmon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My wife’s best friend from college married a billionaire. Like, not a multi-billionaire but a guy who’s net worth is hovering at just above $1bn, and his family lives very comfortably in West Palm Beach off the interest income alone.

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amartko.bsky.social @amartko.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

One of my favorite facts of being too rich is Bill Gates, even with all the billions he has given away, is wealthier now than he ever has been. He literally cannot give it away fast enough.

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Scott Berfield ❌👑- May it happen today. @berfield.com · 04/02/2026

If that meet with was money invested at a measley 5%, he'd be making about a billion a month.

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Scott Berfield ❌👑- May it happen today. @berfield.com · 04/02/2026

And of course, he makes more than a million a day most days.

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Eliza 7777777🌟 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Here’s a great visual aid for those who haven’t seen it before:

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I used to think about taxing the wealthy in terms of how much that money could help other people but now I think if we just seized their money and shredded it that would still be an improvement.

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Matt Allison @thetechlobbyist.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

And this doesn't account for the fact that even at the most basic rate of interest, he would still acrue more every day than he was burning. Capital, man...

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donna. @andshewasdonna.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We need to stop calling these shitgoblins the wealthiest people, and start calling them the greediest people.

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DadBeastLarge @dadbeastlarge.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Here's a really good graphic to help us understand the HUGE differences between 1 million, 1 billion, and 1 trillion dollars. Study it. Know it. Live it.

Images showing the difference between $10k, $1 million, $100 million, $1 billion and $1 trillion. Really look at it and understand it's more than just adding a zero to the end.

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gimli @gimli999.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Not true, he made about 55 billion in the last 2 years. So he needs to light up 77 million every day, just to not get wealthier!

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loviatar’s love @konekodesu.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

….going along with this but, what is the estimated cost of universal healthcare…?

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Chris Barrett @sourball.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I cannot fathom what even $1 Million is. but Billions.... 1 Million seconds = approximately 12 days. 1 Billions seconds = approximately 33 YEARS. think of the difference there. And this fucker has $253.2 Billion, destroyed WaPo today and his employees don't even get bathroom breaks.

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Sam Lloyd @llamsoyd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I guess you’re not familiar with the Twitter argument ”he’s actually pretty close to middle class because most of his money is tied up in stocks”

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Guy Who's Trying ⁸⁶⁴⁷ @jacobgood.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

One million seconds is 11 days. One billion seconds is 31 years. 253 billion seconds is 8022 years.

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sjs67.bsky.social @sjs67.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And rural America would vote again for BBB to cut his taxes

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patrickdore.bsky.social @patrickdore.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

50 million cap for everyone

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Sean O'Connor @seanoconnor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

actually with the interest he's making on his money it's probably a lot longer than that.

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georgebrenner.bsky.social @georgebrenner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

While nurses in NYC strike for a 3 percent raise 😩

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Albert Tecci LMFT @atecci.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

He has made in average $340,000 a day, every day.....since Jesus was born.

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Mike Lowder @mclowder.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

That's assuming he keeps all his cash in a safe and earns no income on it. Realistically, earning only 3% over tax+inflation, he could light around $22,000,000 on fire EVERY DAY and never run out of money.

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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It's just not okay that billionaires exist.

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Avery @averyronan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And do it for infinity after that just using the interest he makes for letting that $253.2 billion sit and do nothing every day.

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mmdoza.bsky.social @mmdoza.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Longer than that because of compounding interest!

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Mimi 🫘 @mimionthehoops.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

More unless this example takes interest rates on the money into effect 🙃⁉️

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steve-degenaro.bsky.social @steve-degenaro.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And that doesn’t include the interest he makes on the float. With the interest earned daily, monthly, annually. He probably makes &12-$13B annually on interest alone. Assuming a 5% return. He could spend over $35M daily and break even.

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Bigjimbok @bigjimbok.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Just an average guy here. Astounding. And yes, we DON'T do a good job putting this in front of everyone who lives paycheck to paycheck. A human with ANY decency just dreams of the good that could be done in the world in so many places. Every damn day! Simply unbelievable.

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Bevin ✨ GOMS @roygbev.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

He moved out of Seattle because the capital gains taxes we expect from him are too much a burden. :(

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Even more - he would have to set 20 million dollars a day on fire just to offset interest on his wealth if he’d put it in the bank and he could do that forever

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creativecoach.bsky.social @creativecoach.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The existence of billionaires in this world is a moral obscenity. That their wealth increases by doing nothing doubles the scale of the obscenity. That they compete to be the first trillionaire means the world's financial system has lost its mind and needs to find some more meaningful metrics.

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Lander Vex, CSO, USS Hippogryph @artificer-trill.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Okay but how much is it in nickels?

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David Williams @se7en-driver.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

After the George Floyd protests there was all this hand ringing that "it will cost $N billion to fix all the damage to all these cities." I figured out that Bezos, by himself, could cover all of it plus lost income for the businesses for the equivalent of a median household buying a used econo car

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Rep. Max Gaetz @repmaxgaetz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

He could do it forever. Even if his entire fortune was making a measly 1% return each year, that is still $2.5 billion per year. His fortune would still grow if he burned $1 million per day.

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Amanda @hellomanders.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

is he on a spit above that money being burnt? afaf

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Andy Olsen @andyo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Can we, also, point out how greedy they are? They have more wealth than they would ever need, but they crave more, no matter what price must be exacted on others. bsky.app/profile/andy...

Andy Olsen@andyo.bsky.social

Jeff Bezos is not satisfied with the wealth he has because he is a pathologically greedy man. Once greed was seen as something bad. we need to stigmatize greed and avarice again, and reveal these oligarchs as the ruinous wealth addicts that they are.

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Nofriendo Entertainment System @djtahoe.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

He could make everyone in the US (who isn't already) a millionaire, and he would be *just fine* financially.

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Bartek Ogryczak @vartec.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If you put it on a 4% annual savings account, you'd get $27 million of interest. A day.

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Evahar.bsky.social 🇪🇺🇨🇦 @evahar.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Why, with all that immeasurable wealth, does he find it necessary to kiss Trump's diaper-clad behind?

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Mathew Michaud @dopplerinc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

That's ignoring the flywheel of compounding interest which at a modest 2% APR on 253 billion is 13.8 million dollars per day. He could light almost 14 million on fire every day and not touch the principle. Every billionaire is a public policy mistake.

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Gay FC 🌈 @doclach.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And that is if he never earned any more money from today forward

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Punk Rocking Rose @punkrockingrose.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

could easily end world hunger, but would rather cause suffering

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The Hate Won’t Win. #IAmAmerica 🇺🇸 @pam327.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Here’s another metric. Bezos could give every American one million dollars, and still have over $252 billion left.

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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @shannondrake.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Meanwhile, REAL people know that the best friends that you could have are the ones who’ll send you $50 for baby formula and diapers, & they know you’ll get them back with interest come payday We’ve had to evolve around this system that’s squeezed us to death for years & years. We built community.

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jiminiplywood.bsky.social @jiminiplywood.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Imagine he dissapeared and a bald man with good morals impersonated him and we just all agreed that this is Jeff Beezos and he´s donating 100 Million every day.

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jiminiplywood.bsky.social @jiminiplywood.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Also stop saving money you peasants money must flow, its bad for the economy if you hoard what measly wealth you might possibly have.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Yup! pseigo.github.io/what-does-a-...

pseigo.github.io

What Does a Billion Look Like?

A visual comparison of numbers from one to a billion.

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exuberantsinner.bsky.social @exuberantsinner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The thing I don’t understand. Is great, have a good idea work hard, strike it rich. But why be a cunt? Why not feed people, cure cancer, make the world better? No I’ll just be a cunt, thank you.

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If he’s getting even 3% interest on the money, he could burn that million every day until the end of time and the pile of cash would still keep getting bigger 20 times faster than he’s burning it.

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Sean Lytle @seanlytle.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is five years old but does a good job of explaining his wealth then. Watch and double the visual. youtu.be/qSOVBiEotaw?...

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Viral TikTok Uses Rice to Show How Rich Jeff Bezos Is | NowThis

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Stevie Go-Go @steviegogo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A million compared to a billion...

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