• Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    No dude you mixed some numbers up - 5%/yr of 440 billion is 22 BILLION dollars per year.

    Unless you meant he could put 0.1% of his wealth (440 mil) to pull 22 million a year.

    In fact, he could put less than half of his total net worth, 200 bil, into a basic savings account returning 0.5% a year and live off of a billion dollars a year, which is equivalent to the median income of 16,666 others.

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      7 hours ago

      While you were writing this comment I was updating my original comment because I messed up! Correct: 22 BILLION.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        15 minutes ago

        Market 10 year average is 11%. 400B at 11% for 30 years left of his life. That’s not 1 trillion dollars, not 2… Not 3… It’s over 9 trillion.

        His money if allowed to be passed down and kept in the market, would make more than 1T dollars a year at that point.