If you could live 25000 years you wouldn’t need to earn a billion by working. You could invest a single dollar at 1% interest and it would only take 2083 years to grow to over a billion dollars.
Well if we said Sisyphus started pushing the rock up the hill at $25/hr during the Illiad times (800BCish) and worked 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. He’ll be a billionaire around the year 3700 or so.
At $20 per hour, working 40 hours a week, you would need about 25000 years to earn one billion dollars.
There’s no way anybody on Earth has put in as much effort to earn a billion dollars as 25000+ years of work.
If you could live 25000 years you wouldn’t need to earn a billion by working. You could invest a single dollar at 1% interest and it would only take 2083 years to grow to over a billion dollars.
Banks would not be paying that kind of interest if we lived 25000 years.
Sure they would. Interest is based on economic growth, not lifespan.
Well if we said Sisyphus started pushing the rock up the hill at $25/hr during the Illiad times (800BCish) and worked 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. He’ll be a billionaire around the year 3700 or so.