• @elrik
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    3812 hours ago

    But if you made just 3% interest on your money as you deposit $1,825,000 annually, over 532 years, you’d end up having $410 trillion dollars or more than 2,000 bezos.

    • @foggianism
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      69 hours ago

      yeah but 1.8 mil 532 years ago would have been valued like billions today. so you still need to be a billionaire to become that rich

      • @elrik
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        69 hours ago

        Not really with that amount of time. Suppose you put away $1,000 a year for 532 years, at 3% you still end up with $225 billion.

        The deposits are completely dwarfed by the compounding interest. If you only start with $1,000 and add nothing else but let that original $1,000 compound at 4% you’ll have over $1 trillion.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 hour ago

          Now do the same math for something like “I can start putting away significant money at 30, and by age of 60 it’s almost useless, I’d rather need it at 45 latest”, so, 15 years of compound interest? Nothing interesting will happen here. You’ll save enough to buy a house by 45, and you gotta be saving 1k a month. This is not a game changer.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          38 hours ago

          Where are you getting 4% annual compound returns, though? That’s faster than the historical growth in global GDP over the equivalent time period.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 hours ago

        thats why investments are inportant for long term. the problem we face as a society is that the majority of people cant afford to make these investments, as they are living day to day with their paychecks.

      • bountygiver [any]
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        you just need to have unlimited time, at 3% annual interest, it takes 77.89 years to 10x your money. it just happens that 532 years is 6.8 times 77.89 years, therefore you would just put a 1 million multiplier on your money anyways. And putting 1 million multiplier on 1 million dollars is enough to become a trillionaire anyways

        At 3% interest, you double your money every 23.4 years, how many 23.4 years do you have?

      • @[email protected]
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        411 hours ago

        That’s why it’s smart to park money in high-interest assets (like index funds). Of course, you need to be in a position to save money.

        • Rhaedas
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          29 hours ago

          And in a position to be able to lose it. High interest are high because they are risky, so they have to pay well to attract investing. If you already have enough money to burn, you can put money into various high risk areas and win overall. If you only have enough to sink it into a single source, you could gain. Or not.

          • @[email protected]
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            27 hours ago

            If you already have enough money to burn, you can put money into various high risk areas and win overall.

            That’s the angel investor strategy.

            There’s also lower risk index funds, that simply invest in the biggest N companies.

          • @[email protected]
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            28 hours ago

            As long as you keep that money in index funds like MSCI World, S&P500 or DAX, you can wait out the bad times. Never sell, keep holding. Over decades this leads to large net profits.

      • @elrik
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        211 hours ago

        Yeah, I had to go down to 3% for it to even make sense.

    • @skibidi
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      1311 hours ago

      2000 Bezos or about 4x the GDP of the planet.

      People just need to invest and stop blaming others for being broke SMH.

      Invest one penny at 3% per year, who can’t afford one penny? You’ll have $68 billion in just one thousand years. Poverty is a choice.

      • @Red_October
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        911 hours ago

        This shit right here is why ancient Vampire Investment Bankers are so insufferable.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 hours ago

        Same. There’s no gold standard, money is a social construct.

        I wonder if the people who think like this, also assume “if bezos had less money, I’d have more”.