I was just randomly thinking...

Bill Gates has like what 40+ Billion USD?

The world population is estimated to be almost 7 Billion?

If he gave 1 Billion USD to each person in the world, wouldn't we all be rich?

And he would still have 30+ Billion..

I mean would that technically end world hunger/poverty?

....

Wow my math is bad;

I just read my shit over, NEVER FREAKIN MIND.. o...m...g

FirstProbe

1206 Posts

December 23 2008 23:19 GMT

oh my...

o3.power91

Bahrain5288 Posts

December 23 2008 23:19 GMT

I dont understand the math

Antifate

United States415 Posts

December 23 2008 23:20 GMT

...

7 billion is: 7,000,000,000.

He would need 7,000,000,000,000,000,000 (not sure, got dizzy) USD to give them all 1 billion USD.

micronesia

United States24777 Posts

December 23 2008 23:21 GMT

Even if the math actually worked out a bit more in your favor...

you can't create wealth by playing games with pieces of paper that say $ on them. Economies are more complicated than that.

Shauni

4077 Posts

December 23 2008 23:22 GMT

way to make yourself look like a complete retard lol

TheFlashyOne

Canada450 Posts

December 23 2008 23:24 GMT

dawg, a billion time 7 billions is a lot of billions. its like giving a billion bucks to 7 billion people. like you said. or giving 7 billion bucks to a billion people.. b4 you even checking your math to see if it was right, you shoulda known it didnt make sense in the first place. good try tho. try to start another topic now.

TheFlashyOne

Canada450 Posts

December 23 2008 23:25 GMT

and fuck that geek B.Gates, my man W.B. is first now.

Naib

Hungary4904 Posts

December 23 2008 23:27 GMT

It's not possible if you're gay.

Fzero

United States1503 Posts

December 23 2008 23:30 GMT

#10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_by_net_worth

The top 100 combined on this list have about 850~ billion.

That gives about 850,000,000,000 / 7,000,000,000 = 122$ per person. Congrats.

Kami

United States127 Posts

December 23 2008 23:31 GMT

#11

Bill Gates could give everyone in the world 6 dollars, and we will all be poor.

Kentor

United States5784 Posts

December 23 2008 23:31 GMT

#12

we'll still be poor

naonao

United States847 Posts

December 23 2008 23:32 GMT

#13

But if everyone was rich, the everything would be inflated and the money would be worthless, economics wouldn't allow everyone to be rich.

paper

13196 Posts

December 23 2008 23:32 GMT

#14

122$ goes a long way for third world countries :s

Raithed

China7078 Posts

December 23 2008 23:32 GMT

#15

LMAO. maybe if he gave out 1cent or something.

Eti307

Canada3442 Posts

December 23 2008 23:33 GMT

#16

hahaha wtf that's some great math skills you have there

fusionsdf

Canada15390 Posts

December 23 2008 23:34 GMT

#17

On December 24 2008 08:32 naonao wrote:
But if everyone was rich, the everything would be inflated and the money would be worthless, economics wouldn't allow everyone to be rich.

well rich is a relative term

even the moderately poor live better than the middle class/rich people of 500 years ago

jjun212

Canada2208 Posts

December 23 2008 23:35 GMT

#18

On December 24 2008 08:32 naonao wrote:
But if everyone was rich, the everything would be inflated and the money would be worthless, economics wouldn't allow everyone to be rich.

Let's just say somehow, it did work out...

I don't think inflation works like that? I could be wrong, I think I am BUT... they're not making any more money or adding any more paper to the system. Just spreading it out more.

But ok, what if the top 100 richest people only gave money to people who were making less than 25k/year.

Would that be more possible? Sigh whatever, I just get sad when I see the distance from the richest to the poorest.

Like someone else said, $122 USD is a lot for a family in a struggling country.

Jonoman92

United States9110 Posts

December 23 2008 23:36 GMT

#19

I'm guessing you mean 1 million USD to each person instead of 1 billion? And even if so obv. that doesn't work out.... He could however give about $5.50 to everyone in the world.

KaasZerg

Netherlands927 Posts

December 23 2008 23:38 GMT

#20

This is kind of what the Weimar Republic tried to do. Printing lots of money. The only result was extra zero's on pricetags. My great grandfather Stored piles of Deutsch Marks on his attic. My grandfather and his siblings were litterally throwing with money and swimming in it lol.

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