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I was confused by a quote of someone I'd ignored, so I revealed it, to find several "arguments" that masks don't reduce transmission of respiratory viruses. They were all from people already on my ignore list for other reasons.

Scientific illiteracy is a large part of it. Often the guilty parties are scientists themselves, who fail to understand concepts such as p-hacking, particularly when they are paid not to understand them.

However, the reason one shouldn't argue with an anti-masker any more than a Flat Earther is simple. Common sense combined with basic life experience is enough to exclude the position that masks don't inhibit viral respiratory contagion.

Ask yourself this question, oh sane reader:

If you are in a crowded room of co-workers, and John has the flu, would you rather he sneezed into his bandana desperado mask or an elevated rotary fan ventilating the bullpen?

I rest my case.
Science? What’s that?
 
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OK, while I posted a legitimate scientific argument to be actually considered, you posted a claim akin to "my uncle smoked a pack a day for 96 years and could run marathons, so cigarettes aren't bad for you."

Get out of here with that conveniently line towing, sample of two, fake science. My wife and I had it once and thankfully live in a part of the country that still kind of believes in personal freedoms, so we have been living life as normal and not recontracting the virus. "ThErE wE caNCel yoU oUt."

Science is testing and considering hypothesis with data. Not blindly following some Italian guy in a lab coat.

Would you take my hypothesis more seriously if I told you I was half Italian and wearing a lab coat?
The Italian in the lab coat should stick to making pizza:

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No need to lie and fear monger to sell pizza.
 
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I looked at statistics about money and wrote an article about it. I'll share it here, thinking some may be interested to know who was the richest man that has ever lived, and how many percent of the world GDP should you add to have a company that makes 1 million in revenue.

It's an infotainment article. Nothing too serious.

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The Richest Man That Ever Lived, the Value of the World GDP and Other Money Questions


Elon Musk and his $182,5 billion, Jeff Bezos and his $182,3 billion (loser), Bernard Arnault and his $145 billion, and Bill Gates and his $120 billion may make your head spin considering the enormous wealth they own.

However, when compared to the net worth of the richest man that has ever lived, their wealth appears to be ridiculous - and become by the same token, much more attainable.

In this article, we'll first compare Elon Musk's net worth to the net worth of the richest man that has ever lived. Afterward, we'll talk about you!

Imagining that you wish to acquire a modest net worth of $10 million and build a company that makes $1 million in yearly revenue, we'll look at which share of the worldwide trade, worldwide GDP, and worldwide net worth you would need to acquire to realize your goal.

Hint: it's actually pretty small!

***

The Richest Man That Has Ever Lived

The richest man that has ever lived is not Elon Musk, nor Bill Gates, or Jeff Bezos.

The richest man in the history of the world was the ruler of the biggest empire that has ever existed. Meet Genghis Khan.

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At its peak, his empire had a size of...23 million square/km. The size of the land of the world is about 149 million square/km, which makes Genghis' empire 15% of the entire land on earth.

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When one owns 15% of the world (without the oceans), one becomes de facto rich. Really rich. As such, his wealth was estimated to fluctuate around $100 trillion in today's money, or $100 000 billion.

Genghis Khan may have been the richest man the world has ever known. In comparison, today's richest people's nets worth appear ridiculous. Elon Musk's net worth, for example, is "only" 0,18% of Genghis Khan's fortune.

Not even 1%!

***

Which Share of the Value of the Worldwide Trade of Goods Should You Get to Make $1 Million in Revenue per Year?

The global trade value of goods is equal to $19 trillion. This means that each year, countries export to other countries a bunch of goods (cars, clothes, medicines, whatever you can buy) worth $19 trillion.

$19 trillion is a big number. And yet, mind here that we are only talking about goods, not even about services.

***

Let's imagine you wish to create a company that will export goods to other countries only, and that you'll be happy once your company makes $1 million in revenue per year.

The classic thought-process is to calculate how big a worldwide trade value "cake slice" you'd have to cut to get your million. However, this is incorrect thinking because the value of worldwide trade cannot be represented by a cake.

It's a pot.

An infinity pot, to be specific.

It's a giant pot into which those that responsible for trade pour...mmh, let's say gold.

Gold represents the value of the goods produced and shipped. The more people work, the more goods are produced and shipped, the more gold gets into the pot. The size of the pot is infinite. The more we produce and exchange, the more gold will come into the pot.

When you sell a good for $1000, that's $1000 you can pour into the pot. Now, you have to do it again until you reach...$1 million.

As such, if you want to compare your own production to the one of the rest of the world, you need to look at how much adding $1 million into the pot will grow the pot.

Since the pot is worth $19 trillion per year and you wish to grow it by $1 million, a simple equation will do: 19 trillion x the percentage we want = 19 trillion and 1 million → the percentage we want = 19 trillion and 1 million divided by 19 trillion.

The answer is 0,00000005, or 0,000005%.

To make $1 million, you only need to grow the pot by 0,000005%.

Seem much? Actually, yeah. It is way too much.

Let's have a look at the same question, but with the world GDP.

By How Much Should You Grow the World GDP to Make $1 Million in Revenue per Year?

The world GDP is the value of the total goods and services produced in the world each year.

The value of the world GDP is $88 trillion. It means that if we add the value of the work of everyone on earth, we arrive at $88 trillion.

I don't need to explain that GDP is not a cake but a pot. It would be a cake if you looked at stealing the value of the work that other people do (or alternatively, if you wished to buy a company). However, in our case, we are looking at creating value and deliver gold into the pot. So, it's a pot.

The question is: by how much should you grow the worldwide GDP pot to make $1 million per year?

The calculation will be the same. $88 trillion and 1 million divided by $88 trillion = 1,000000011.

If you want to sell for $1 million of goods, you'll only have to grow the worldwide pot by 0,000000011 or 0,0000011%.

That's much less than 0,000005%!

How Much of the Worldwide Net Worth Should You Own to Have $10 Million?

We arrive at the last calculation of our article.

Let's say you wish to acquire a $10 million net worth.

$10 million is not so much. You could afford maybe one or two Ferraris, a reasonable house, a small boat and that's about it. No private jet for you, nothing to go crazy about.

If you want to afford the $100 million yacht, you'll have to work a bit harder (and longer).

But $10 million is enough for you to invest your money and live off your returns so that you can do whatever you want with your life without ever worry about money.

The net worth concerns the value of assets someone owns. The net worth of Elon Musk is $182,5 billion. It means that if we add everything Elon Musk owns, we get to $182,5 billion.

The world net worth is therefore the sum of the value that everyone on earth owns. That sum is equal, according to Wikipedia, to $360 trillion.

$360 000 000 000 000.

And you only want $10 million of these. How much, in percentage, would that be?

The calculation is $10 million divided by $360 trillion which is equal to 0,0000000278, or 0,00000278% of the world GDP.

Is this a lot? No. It is not much. By comparison, Elon Musk owns 0,000506, or 0,0506% of total world GDP.

We are far, far away from Genghis' 100 trillion.

The Bottom Line

These calculations are not meant to make you dream, but to help you realize something.

The world is extremely wealthy.

Mainstream media constantly bashes you out with poverty and debt, but the truth is completely other: we are extremely rich. The reason why the media talk so much about poverty is that there are in fact, a lot of very poor people in the world.

If the media kept on saying " wE aRe So RiCh", people would be burning the streets. So most of the wealth is hidden, and we don't talk about it. As a result, many people believe that being rich is unattainable, "since there is so much poverty".

As we have seen though, the truth is other.

So much wealth has already been created that when we compare a meager $1 million in revenue per year or a $10 million net worth to the rest of the world, it isn't much. Even when we compare it to Elon Musks's fortune, $10 million seem rather accessible.

So it is important to change your mindset. It's important to look at the way rich people have contributed to the advancement of the world and think about how you can contribute to it as well.

It doesn't have to be much. A mere 0,0000011% will help you grow a business that makes $1 million in revenue.

When we think about it, that's very little. But that's enough.
 

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I looked at statistics about money and wrote an article about it. I'll share it here, thinking some may be interested to know who was the richest man that has ever lived, and how many percent of the world GDP should you add to have a company that makes 1 million in revenue.

It's an infotainment article. Nothing too serious.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Richest Man That Ever Lived, the Value of the World GDP and Other Money Questions


Elon Musk and his $182,5 billion, Jeff Bezos and his $182,3 billion (loser), Bernard Arnault and his $145 billion, and Bill Gates and his $120 billion may make your head spin considering the enormous wealth they own.

However, when compared to the net worth of the richest man that has ever lived, their wealth appears to be ridiculous - and become by the same token, much more attainable.

In this article, we'll first compare Elon Musk's net worth to the net worth of the richest man that has ever lived. Afterward, we'll talk about you!

Imagining that you wish to acquire a modest net worth of $10 million and build a company that makes $1 million in yearly revenue, we'll look at which share of the worldwide trade, worldwide GDP, and worldwide net worth you would need to acquire to realize your goal.

Hint: it's actually pretty small!

***

The Richest Man That Has Ever Lived

The richest man that has ever lived is not Elon Musk, nor Bill Gates, or Jeff Bezos.

The richest man in the history of the world was the ruler of the biggest empire that has ever existed. Meet Genghis Khan.

image-2.png
Courtesy of Wikipedia
At its peak, his empire had a size of...23 million square/km. The size of the land of the world is about 149 million square/km, which makes Genghis' empire 15% of the entire land on earth.

image-3.png
Courtesy of Wikipedia
When one owns 15% of the world (without the oceans), one becomes de facto rich. Really rich. As such, his wealth was estimated to fluctuate around $100 trillion in today's money, or $100 000 billion.

Genghis Khan may have been the richest man the world has ever known. In comparison, today's richest people's nets worth appear ridiculous. Elon Musk's net worth, for example, is "only" 0,18% of Genghis Khan's fortune.

Not even 1%!

***

Which Share of the Value of the Worldwide Trade of Goods Should You Get to Make $1 Million in Revenue per Year?

The global trade value of goods is equal to $19 trillion. This means that each year, countries export to other countries a bunch of goods (cars, clothes, medicines, whatever you can buy) worth $19 trillion.

$19 trillion is a big number. And yet, mind here that we are only talking about goods, not even about services.

***

Let's imagine you wish to create a company that will export goods to other countries only, and that you'll be happy once your company makes $1 million in revenue per year.

The classic thought-process is to calculate how big a worldwide trade value "cake slice" you'd have to cut to get your million. However, this is incorrect thinking because the value of worldwide trade cannot be represented by a cake.

It's a pot.

An infinity pot, to be specific.

It's a giant pot into which those that responsible for trade pour...mmh, let's say gold.

Gold represents the value of the goods produced and shipped. The more people work, the more goods are produced and shipped, the more gold gets into the pot. The size of the pot is infinite. The more we produce and exchange, the more gold will come into the pot.

When you sell a good for $1000, that's $1000 you can pour into the pot. Now, you have to do it again until you reach...$1 million.

As such, if you want to compare your own production to the one of the rest of the world, you need to look at how much adding $1 million into the pot will grow the pot.

Since the pot is worth $19 trillion per year and you wish to grow it by $1 million, a simple equation will do: 19 trillion x the percentage we want = 19 trillion and 1 million → the percentage we want = 19 trillion and 1 million divided by 19 trillion.

The answer is 0,00000005, or 0,000005%.

To make $1 million, you only need to grow the pot by 0,000005%.

Seem much? Actually, yeah. It is way too much.

Let's have a look at the same question, but with the world GDP.

By How Much Should You Grow the World GDP to Make $1 Million in Revenue per Year?

The world GDP is the value of the total goods and services produced in the world each year.

The value of the world GDP is $88 trillion. It means that if we add the value of the work of everyone on earth, we arrive at $88 trillion.

I don't need to explain that GDP is not a cake but a pot. It would be a cake if you looked at stealing the value of the work that other people do (or alternatively, if you wished to buy a company). However, in our case, we are looking at creating value and deliver gold into the pot. So, it's a pot.

The question is: by how much should you grow the worldwide GDP pot to make $1 million per year?

The calculation will be the same. $88 trillion and 1 million divided by $88 trillion = 1,000000011.

If you want to sell for $1 million of goods, you'll only have to grow the worldwide pot by 0,000000011 or 0,0000011%.

That's much less than 0,000005%!

How Much of the Worldwide Net Worth Should You Own to Have $10 Million?

We arrive at the last calculation of our article.

Let's say you wish to acquire a $10 million net worth.

$10 million is not so much. You could afford maybe one or two Ferraris, a reasonable house, a small boat and that's about it. No private jet for you, nothing to go crazy about.

If you want to afford the $100 million yacht, you'll have to work a bit harder (and longer).

But $10 million is enough for you to invest your money and live off your returns so that you can do whatever you want with your life without ever worry about money.

The net worth concerns the value of assets someone owns. The net worth of Elon Musk is $182,5 billion. It means that if we add everything Elon Musk owns, we get to $182,5 billion.

The world net worth is therefore the sum of the value that everyone on earth owns. That sum is equal, according to Wikipedia, to $360 trillion.

$360 000 000 000 000.

And you only want $10 million of these. How much, in percentage, would that be?

The calculation is $10 million divided by $360 trillion which is equal to 0,0000000278, or 0,00000278% of the world GDP.

Is this a lot? No. It is not much. By comparison, Elon Musk owns 0,000506, or 0,0506% of total world GDP.

We are far, far away from Genghis' 100 trillion.

The Bottom Line

These calculations are not meant to make you dream, but to help you realize something.

The world is extremely wealthy.

Mainstream media constantly bashes you out with poverty and debt, but the truth is completely other: we are extremely rich. The reason why the media talk so much about poverty is that there are in fact, a lot of very poor people in the world.

If the media kept on saying " wE aRe So RiCh", people would be burning the streets. So most of the wealth is hidden, and we don't talk about it. As a result, many people believe that being rich is unattainable, "since there is so much poverty".

As we have seen though, the truth is other.

So much wealth has already been created that when we compare a meager $1 million in revenue per year or a $10 million net worth to the rest of the world, it isn't much. Even when we compare it to Elon Musks's fortune, $10 million seem rather accessible.

So it is important to change your mindset. It's important to look at the way rich people have contributed to the advancement of the world and think about how you can contribute to it as well.

It doesn't have to be much. A mere 0,0000011% will help you grow a business that makes $1 million in revenue.

When we think about it, that's very little. But that's enough.

Nice post, amassing wealth isn't as impossible as it seems. I like to think of it as how much of the population you serve, here in BC the population is about 5 million, a small $20 product sold to 1% of the population is the magical million bucks.

Find it really sad more people aren't taught about entrepreneurship, and mainstream media constantly pounds into the minds of the general population that ''rich people are evil'' and other silly nonsense. Making the rich pay their fair share is one of my personal favorites.
 
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Engaging with trolls online.... :smuggy:

Masks.... lockdowns..... hmmmmmmmmm
 

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For the shills, vaccine passports are already a forgone conclusion.

F*ck these people.

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For the shills, vaccine passports are already a forgone conclusion.

f*ck these people.

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Trudeau announced he won't be doing vaccine passports.....although he also mentioned not increasing the carbon tax, which is coming into effect around April?

Parts of Canada are still locked down.. it's been over a year, time to start opening back up and let people go about their daily lives..
 
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Would you take my hypothesis more seriously if I told you I was half Italian and wearing a lab coat?

Only if we can call you Dr. Mario.

Fair?
 

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Is there any super powerful decentralized blockchain host for WordPress ready for prime time?
 

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Minds next? Google sends ‘24 hour warning' to free-speech 'anti-Facebook' platform, forces changes to app Minds next? Google sends ‘24 hour warning' to free-speech 'anti-Facebook' platform, forces changes to app
Unbelievable. On the plus side, some friends of mine are starting to wake up to what's going on because of how blatantly obvious it's being made.
 
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I'm not here to offer anything useful - I'm just here to argue with people on the internet.

I don't know what your opinion is, but it's wrong. @#!% you
 

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I'm not here to offer anything useful - I'm just here to argue with people on the internet.

I don't know what your opinion is, but it's wrong. @#!% you
No @#!% you
 

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I’m ready, sign me up!

Here in BC they are giving some prisoners vaccines first before other people, one thing I will agree about that the Canadian government is doing :clap:: :clap::
 
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I’m ready, sign me up!

Here in BC they are giving some prisoners vaccines first before other people, one thing I will agree about that the Canadian government is doing :clap:: :clap::


One of the comments from the article. lol

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Hands, face, space. Wear a mask whilst driving in the car alone and on a remote beach with no-one around for miles. Throw your windows wide open letting in -10 Arctic winds when there is no virus in the house. All commandments of the new religion of covidism with the first commandment being "Thou shalt stay safe".
 

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I just saw an article titled "Is Silicon Valley losing its dominance?" a week after big tech just banned the president of the United States from every major social media platform.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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I just saw an article titled "Is Silicon Valley losing its dominance?" a week after big tech just banned the president of the United States from every major social media platform.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.”
 

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A friend of mine went kite-surfing with people earlier and told me that someone died.

Always remember to tell your dear ones that you love em folks - you never know when this ride will come to an end.
 

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Rather than flail uselessly against the utility of masks, which certainly do work but are foolishly fetishized by the fearful and fearmonger alike, one should mock the shamdemic by observing the total absence of advocacy for super-effective measures such as sunlight and humidified air, the traditional enemies of winter colds. But tans are politically undesirable, as the associated increase in testosterone can result in mocking sissies scared of sniffles like based Bolsonaro.

If you wish to defy the cuck muzzle, wear a bandit mask instead, and deny the FBI a small fraction of its Clearview AI facial recognition transparency, which it recently turned against those terrifying Trumpian terrorists who snapped selfies between velvet ropes in dumbocracy's most sacred and polluted womb, while Trump gave a sleepy speech a mile away. We know what you're thinking, criminal, by the shape of your face!

View: https://twitter.com/polygenicity/status/1349555457837453312


Cyberthal was right again.
 
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I bet someone already said this, but Amazon banning Parler is just an extension of what they already do to people who use FBA. They see a product that they have resources to copy, then copy and sell it, then squeeze out that original business from the market. Why would they limit themselves to only ripping off physical products?

Expect more deplatforming of competitors from AWS.
 

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I bet someone already said this, but Amazon banning Parler is just an extension of what they already do to people who use FBA. They see a product that they have resources to copy, then copy and sell it, then squeeze out that original business from the market. Why would they limit themselves to only ripping off physical products?

Expect more deplatforming of competitors from AWS.

Do you think there will come a point when sellers start to abandon Amazon, from practises like this?
 

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Do you think there will come a point when sellers start to abandon Amazon, from practises like this?

The smart ones were probably already developing contingency plans for stuff like this. You don't even have to see this through a political lens - like MJ said, this is about control. If Amazon can shut down your business, you've got a serious issue.

And even smaller businesses can rent servers for much cheaper than AWS - SSD Nodes | VPS Cloud Hosting For Hundreds Less

I think that this overt show of force by Big Tech will come back to bite them, though their power won't be seriously challenged for years at least.
 
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The smart ones were probably already developing contingency plans for stuff like this. You don't even have to see this through a political lens - like MJ said, this is about control. If Amazon can shut down your business, you've got a serious issue.

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I think that this overt show of force by Big Tech will come back to bite them, though their power won't be seriously challenged for years at least.

I'd agree with that. The same story has played out time and time again.... and will continue to do so.
 

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Rather than flail uselessly against the utility of masks, which certainly do work but are foolishly fetishized by the fearful and fearmonger alike, one should mock the shamdemic by observing the total absence of advocacy for super-effective measures such as sunlight and humidified air, the traditional enemies of winter colds. But tans are politically undesirable, as the associated increase in testosterone can result in mocking sissies scared of sniffles like based Bolsonaro.

If you wish to defy the cuck muzzle, wear a bandit mask instead, and deny the FBI a small fraction of its Clearview AI facial recognition transparency, which it recently turned against those terrifying Trumpian terrorists who snapped selfies between velvet ropes in dumbocracy's most sacred and polluted womb, while Trump gave a sleepy speech a mile away. We know what you're thinking, criminal, by the shape of your face!

View: https://twitter.com/polygenicity/status/1349555457837453312


Cyberthal was right again.

Get a bandit mask with Captcha images on it to screw with their AI.
 

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