tl;dr!? If $1 bought 1 inch, literally how much distance you could buy with increasing orders of magnitude? Note: This information originally appeared in “Can we finally agree that trickle down doesn’t?” I have expanded the original text to include: scientific notation individuals or classes of people as markers of attainment a trillion inches or …
Monday morning over coffee and I am waving goodbye to Jeff Bezos who has walked so far out on the pier of net worth that he is crossing his own ocean and did I mention I’m all in for mixed metaphor? Jeff Bezos net worth today is approximately $130B. Stratospheric net worth. Net worth expressly …
When I was in third grade, The Weekly Reader reported that the national debt per person was about the same as the cost of a new car. I remember thinking, ‘I can’t pay for a new car! I can’t even drive a car.’ My future was doomed even as I knew that car would be red. …