There are about 16 million millionaires in the world. Billionaires, just 2607.
If you were earning a million dollars every month, it would still take you 83 years and 4 months to make a billion dollars. And even at the rate of a million dollars per month, it would take you about 9166 years and 8 months to make as much money as Jeff Bezos.
If you had a great job of earning $100 an hour, it would take you 423,000 years to equal Jeff Bezos – human species has been on Earth for only half the amount of that time.
So how much money does Jeff really have? And what things would you be able to do if you had that kind of money? The answers are surprising.
#1. Build 73 towers like Burj Khalifa
The tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa, with a staggering height of 830 meters (about 2722 ft), cost around $1.5 billion to build. If you had as much money as Jeff Bezos ($110 billion) – you could build about 73 of such towers.
#2. Buy 24,000 mansions like this in Europe
This a mansion that comes complete with its own IMAX cinema, a bowling alley, and a spa – this most luxurious mansion in the world costs about $4.6 million. If you had Jeff Bezos’ money you could have 24,000 such mansions – about 12 such mansions in every country of the world.
#3. Own the Hubble Space Telescope and use it for 220 years
The building cost of the Hubble Space Telescope, and operating it for 20 years would cost about $10 billion dollars(including all the maintenance, payment to the lab, scientists and staff).
#4. Make 12 labs like the Large Hedron Collider
The building and operational cost of LHC, the world’s biggest and most advanced and most complex lab, is about $9 billion, for $110 billion you could have 12 of such labs or single mega-lab that could actually find a way to combine gravity with the electromagnetic forces.
#5. You could end world hunger
Everyday, about 800 million people in the world go to bed without having any food to eat. That is one in nine people on Earth. Most of these people come from poor countries in Asia and Africa, whose resources and labour force is exploited by big corporations while they do not get paid enough to fill their own stomach.
For $30 billion, you could feed 800 million people for a year!
#6. You could give a home to every homeless person in USA
There are more than half a million people without homes in USA. If each of them were given just $50,000, that would help them have a decent house. It would cost a total of about $27 billion.
#7. Give every Amazon worker a $20,000 bonus
Number of Amazon employees is about 575,000 and if you were Jeff Bezos, you could give a $20,000 bonus to every employee for just about $11.5 billion.
2000 odd billionaires in the world could buy Russia for 5 years
Currently, there are 2607 billionaires in the world, and their combined net worth is about $8700,000,000,000 ($8.7 trillion.)
In comparison, Russia, the largest country in the world with a population of 144 million, has a GDP of about $1.7 trillion dollars. They have as much money to buy every industry and products made in Russia for 5 years!
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