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    4 months ago

    Oh wow that’s not even the US. 340 years, that’s cute.

    Elon Musk is estimated by Forbes at $227 billion (and there’s many more like Bezos and Zuck with only slightly less money). His annual pay is complicated, but if we divide that up by year since he entered the workforce in about 1995, it comes out to $7.8 billion/year.

    The average salary in the US is about $64,000. So to make what Elon (roughly) makes in a year, the average American worker would need to work about 122,000 years. By this time the constellations we currently observe in the night sky will be unrecognizable.