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Jeff Bezos’ $200 Billion Net Worth In Terms We Can Understand Is Mind-Blowing

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Jeff Bezos’ bank account now has more zeros than a LARPing convention, as it’s being reported by Forbes that Amazon’s head honcho has become the first EVER $200 billion man.

For context, that is 200,000,000,000, or 200,000 million, or 2.000 x 1011.

Amazon’s stock perked up 2% as of Wednesday afternoon fueled by the change in consumer habits as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and in turn, bumped Bezos’ net worth up by $4.9 billion.

As it stands today, the 56-year-old is worth a record $204.6 billion, almost $90 billion more than the world’s second-richest person, Bill Gates (currently worth $116.1 billion), and double that of newly-minted centibillionaire Elon Musk.

Two hundred billion is nearly impossible to contextualized, so think of it like this:

According to Research Maniacs, if you saved $100,000 per year, it would take you 2,000,000 years to save 200 billion dollars. If you saved $10,000 every single day, then it would only take you 54,795 years to reach Bezos status.

Bezos could give ever American $609, and every person on the planet $26.

The median house price in America is $320,000. Bezos could purchase 625,000 of them.

Bernie Sanders’ bill to levy a 60% tax on billionaires’ pandemic gains would raise $55 billion from Bezos alone.

Bezos’ cartoonish net worth has garnered some expected criticism from those who believe the disparity in this country is too stark.

https://twitter.com/DjNewAfrica/status/1298866680731500545?s=20

Hey Jeff, my Venmo’s open you coward.

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