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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Imagine being that rich and spending the limited time you have on Earth actively trying to make more money. It's absolutely mental illness!

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

If we see a street lady collecting a hundred cats to horde, we call her crazy.

When we see someone hording so much wealth that they could never reasonably ever spend all that money in a lifetime ... we put them on the cover of a magazine.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

spend all that money in a lifetime

In thousands of lifetimes. 1,000,000 per year is a stupid amount of money to live on. If you "only" spent $1,000,000 a year you could live on 250billion for 250,000 years. That isn't including any interest accrued.

People constantly underestimate how large a billion actually is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

The difference between a million and a billion dollars is approximately 1 billion dollars

[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A million heartbeats is 10 days. A billion is 27 years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

That's going to change a lot from person to person

Edit. Lol downvoting facts. Feels like reddit here. Congratulations!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Maybe billionaires just have faster heart rates

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

it may be more than someone can reasonably spend, but someone can unreasonably spend it with some effort