Saw a thread where someone insists that chrissy teigen is a bad person by definition, because she is “absurdly rich”. I should probably smile and laugh and let it go, but I am a dumb motherfucker so I will type my feelings out loud on the internet
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first of all, we don’t need to use vague terms like “absurdly rich”. we can estimate her networth, which is about 10-20m. Her husband’s is maybe about 40m. That’s very comfortable; they could retire on that. Quick googling, there’s over 173,000 households like that in the US
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Just for mathematical context, Bezos has a networth of 140B. If we assume Chrissy and John are worth 50m, that’s 2,800x.
With an annual budget of ~750B, the US military burns through 5 Jeff Bezoses a year
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Personally, I’m not even micro-rich. I get nervous about ordering food too often, or about using too much air-conditioning. At my current conditions I will take another 20 years to pay off my ~250k mortgage and be “debt-free”. this does mean I’m better off than billions of people
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I anticipate that, in my lifetime, it may be possible for me to *approach* Chrissy’s networth. Just for some fun napkin math: lets say I make $5 profit per ebook sold. That means I’ll have to sell 2,000,000 ebooks. I mayyyy do that in my lifetime, yeah. I’ve sold 400 so far 😂
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I suppose the fundamental question that interests me is, how many ebooks do I have to sell to become a bad person? 🤔
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Yes! I love that frame. It throws into sharp relief how wealth is created through value production, an idea I only grokked recently and am still internalising.
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