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    Perspective on a billion

    Similar to a thread I made last week, we now get to see how much a BILLION is !

    "A billion"

    A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into perspective in one of its releases.

    A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

    A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

    A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

    A billion days ago no one walked on two feet on earth.

    A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate the government spends it...
    Oh if a man tried to take his time on Earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world ? - Harry Chapin

    #2
    Ouch

    And I'm guessing that in our lifetimes all the members of Cain's Lair pooling their earnings together would not make a billion.

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      #3
      Unless I join in Skud... it will be negative $50,000 lol

      Nice numbers thou.

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        #4
        Oooh

        Originally posted by K PhaNTOM View Post
        Unless I join in Skud... it will be negative $50,000 lol

        Nice numbers thou.
        Bad debt, Phan Phan? Who's on your back, I'll take him out!!

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          #5
          Originally posted by Skud View Post
          And I'm guessing that in our lifetimes all the members of Cain's Lair pooling their earnings together would not make a billion.
          Not if I have anything to say about it.


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            #6
            Using 2007 data from Wikipedia the per capita income for a US worker is 31,631.

            Lets say the average person works for 40 years.

            40*31,631= $1,265,240 lifetime earnings

            Members: 3,863 (from front page of Cains Lair)

            1,265,240*3,863= $4,887,622,120

            Want to retire early?
            30 years would be $3,665,716,590

            Get that promotion that doubles you income?
            $9,775,244,240

            Most people just wasted about 30 billion nanoseconds reading this crap.

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              #7
              and there you have it folks, real facts.
              Hit 'em like comic books, kaboom! pow pow!

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