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Amazon’s founder and CEO Jeff Bezos recently padded his ‘richest person in the world’ stats by making $12 BILLION overnight, thanks to Amazon’s net income for the first quarter of 2018 reaching $1.63 billion or $3.27 per share, nearly triple what analysts expected ($1.24). The 54-year-old, who made an average of $107 million per day in 2017, is so obscenely wealthy that the value of $1 to the average person equals about $88,000 to Bezos.
At the moment, Forbes’ Most Powerful CEO in the World is worth nearly $133 billion, nearly $40 billion more than Bill Gates, the world’s second richest man. Bezos is the only person in the world with 12 digits next to his name.
Feel shitty about your current financial situation yet? No? Well let astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson throw the knockout punch.
Not that anybody asked, but @JeffBezos' 130-Billion dollars, laid end-to-end, can circle Earth 200 times then reach the Moon & back 15 times then, with what’s left over, circle Earth another 8 times.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) May 12, 2018
A few stats here: A dollar bill is 6.14 inches long, the moon’s average distance from Earth is about 238,000 miles, and the Earth’s circumference is about 24,900 miles.
Now you’re sad. Here are a few poignant responses to Tyson’s tweet that could turn that frown upside down.
And that's still shorter than a @cvspharmacy receipt.
— Xenogenic (@Xenogenic) May 12, 2018
My net worth literally can’t make it from my couch to the front door.
— addison alan harris (@AddisonAlan) May 12, 2018
more fun examples
if you make $200,000 per year, it would take you 650,000 years to make 130 billion dollars. difficult to fathom…
now, if you somehow made $200,000 EVERY SINGLE DAY, it would still take you 1,780 years. 1,780 years ago pupienus maximus was emperor of rome. pic.twitter.com/hpliG8sItp
— Reckful (@Byron) May 12, 2018
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to crack open my piggy bank for lunch money. Yes, I have a piggy bank. Dont @ me.