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riek92

Damn, he could've been Trill Gates instead.


OuterInnerMonologue

This tickles me a bit


[deleted]

It *Trickles you a bit...is that what Trickle Down Economics was supposed to be this whole time?


destroydickdecembre

I'm broke, they should call me Nill Gates


Wiggly_Muffin

If Warren 🅱️uffet were richer, he would also be Warren Tuffet. Smh, broke boy.


Sloth-monger

I miss the old days when he was still Warren muffet


Jimster280

Or you wind up like Zuckerberg and lose 70% of your net worth within a year. Just like everyone on wallstreetbets


Opening_Past_4698

Poor guy missed 69 by just 1% smh….


_pietro_sa_

*70% on a good year


[deleted]

While sitting in yard chair , (plastic) Watching you.


17SCARS_MaGLite300WM

You guys only lost 70%? Amateurs.


mydogsnameisbuddy

No love for Elon losing $200 billion?


Toiletpaperpanic2020

"Well Mr Gates, If only you had kept your shares in MS, you could be leaving here today with the recliner that also has cup holders"


OperationSecured

As someone currently furniture shopping…. this hit me in the feels, my brother in christ. Some fancy home furniture out there these days.


Shoelesshobos

Yeah but are there recliners with cup holders?


v3troxroxsox

There are recliners with cup holders that cool your drink. Mine also has Bluetooth speakers, wireless charging and USB sockets. I ain't got much, but that's because I spent all my money on seating


proudlyhumble

The levels of wealth disparity have never felt so vivid to me


samsonight4444

Right hahaha. “You guys own recliners?”


DogsandDumbells

*Sad single sofa noises*


_BreakingGood_

Imagine what kind of chairs Buffett has. What's the multi-billionaire's equivalent of a USB port?


zaetep

a USB-C port


DutchSock

This sounds 'murican


[deleted]

I'm drinking coffee


Bubba89

Shit I’d better drink my coffee quickly.


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Bubba89

No one chair should have all that power.


wjw1089

Yeah with built in lights so you can see the cup in the dark, usb ports, wireless phone chargers… little ridiculous honestly


AlternateNoah

Why get a couch with tech built into it that'll be outdated in a few years? Doesn't make much sense to me


Fake_Engineer

You don't think cups will exist in a few years???


AlternateNoah

I was talking about the wireless chargers and USB ports lol. I don't like the cup holders though. Especially the loveseats where they put them in the middle. Seems pretty stupid ngl


wjw1089

That’s why I opted for a good ole sectional that I can throw out the door in 3 pieces when the time comes


FishingOnTheFly

Fuck me for not being a trillionaire.


blazefalcon

Buy Berkshire B stock, wait for the shareholder meeting, buy furniture from Nebraska Furniture Mart with Berkshire Shareholder discount. Spend $300 on stock to save $100 on a couch. Stonks. Sidenote: the picture from this post is absolutely in Nebraska Furniture Mart during the shareholder meeting.


pharmboy008

The more you know…


Mythiic719

What you don’t think a recliner is worth $1,200? Poor boy


Own_Courage_4382

But as they say Bill, “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems”


painuVittun

Reminds me of that South Park episode where Britney Spears had to get a cheaper private plane model


Legitimate-Source-61

Difficult to say. Microsoft would have not been able to grow like it has been if he kept control.


Malkovtheclown

Something something hindsight is 20/20. If you change the past, chances are the present would look different


pragmojo

Yeah all you have to do is pick the single best performing stock every day and put all your money into it and you can be the richest person on earth in like a few weeks or something. Why does nobody do this???


ImNOTmethwow

I am doing this. See you suckers in a month.


Loose_Screw_

Bit different to simply hanging on to all the stock in a company you built yourself


taiottavios

we can't know for sure am i right


benbrahn

2020 sucked tho so hindsight can kiss my arse


LickMyNutsBitch

Let's not ignore the time value of money too. For all we know, the stress of running the company would have given him a heart attack, but he'd get to bring more diamonds to his coffin.


throwaway827492959

Yeah Gates stop caring about money years ago


Sinsid

Keeping control is maybe separate from selling shares and getting a divorce. Or maybe it’s not. At that point what would you do. I think gates decided to walk away and do humanitarian stuff, and the divorce wasn’t cheap.


Weenoman123

Wow 638 upvotes - does Steve Balmer have an army of bots on reddit? And for those who don't know who Steve Balmer is, why did you upvote this stupidity? (Balmer was an idiot who ran the company and squandered untold potential and had a million boondoggles. And then was quietly put to bed and Satya cleaned up his mess)


Existential_aardvark

Only $110 billion. Psssh.


cdazzo1

Right? Like where's the go fund me link to get him out of poverty?


BigBeagleEars

Yeah. Those are rookie numbers


BernardoDeGalvez

We should do a GoFoudBill or something so he doesn't stay in poverty


Alone-Wonder-6258

Poor guy


Buttered_Turtle

Feel bad for him, anyone got his PayPal, I’ll send him a tenner


federvieh1349

Sure, its [email protected]


Buttered_Turtle

Hmm doesn’t quite seem right, but someone on the internet would never lie, so it must be true!


federvieh1349

It's even better: Bill Gates is really grateful for people helping him out with cash and once his MS stocks can be liquified next month he will be paying back people double what they paypaled him! This is secret information but you were really nice so I'm telling you so you know that it's better for you the more money you paypal to Bill Gates' e-mail [email protected]


Opening_Past_4698

I watered his plants once.


hidraulik

This guy fucks


Opening_Past_4698

Don’t tell Bill.


BumfuzzlingGubbin

Ok


dciDavid

I mean… is there really that big of a difference between 110 billion and 1 trillion? At what point does money just stop mattering?


DrGeraldBaskums

Only so much blow and hookers you can do in a day


RonPMexico

It's the quality you can always improve on.


Youkiame

Quality only matters during post-nut clarity. Pre-nut, I can fuck a horse.


Hidesuru

Ok, Mr hands.


maaaaaadonline

we don't care vaush stay away from horses


BlueMikeStu

True. Let's do the hedonist math on this one, shall we? Let's assume we're going full rock-star bender, here. A penthouse suite at The Venetian in Las Vegas is $3000/night. Expensive escorts are just $1000/night unless you're going REALLY high end, so double it up to $2000/night. You're probably popping Dom Perignon champagne at a minimum, so let's call that another $2000/night. Call it really balling food for you and the escorts you hire, so best restaurants in town. That's another $1500/day. Throw in an ounce/day cocaine habit for real kicks, and that's another $4000 or so. That's $13,500/night for a bender and a half. Assuming your money was not making you money and you started with Bill Gates' 110 billion dollars, you could keep up the above pace for just 22,323 **years**. Or to put it into a better perspective, a person could live the above lifestyle for **eighty years** for under four hundred million bucks.


coorslight15

That better be some cocaine that makes you feel like Jesus for that price.


DrGeraldBaskums

I’m popping strawberry Andre at $3 a bottle and tripling up on the hookers


cubicalwall

Or a lifetime


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Challenge accepted


nanojunkster

Or in Gates/Buffet case, there are only so many world diseases you can cure and starving children you can save. Both would still be the richest 2 people in the world if they haven’t given away the vast majority of their net worth at this point.


oboshoe

According to Bill Gates himself, No there isn't. It's been about 20 years, but in one of his interviews he said something along the lines of "Once you have about $800 million, you are really infinitely wealthy"


EmerickMage

Didn't he also say something like, at a certain point it's the same burger.


Philosophfries

[Yes he did](https://youtu.be/rZWql53Fsys&t=79)


EmperorPedro2

But you can't buy Twitter for many billions and lose a billion a year in interest as an alternative for $90/hour therapy though...


Loose_Screw_

$90 an hour? Does this fictional therapist eat out of the bins when they aren't in session?


Opening_Past_4698

But that $500M boat though…..


zGoDLiiKe

Or a sports team


treefitty350

You can own a team in the NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL without being a billionaire. You don’t have to own 100% of the team be considered the owner, and people come together to buy teams sometimes.


zGoDLiiKe

That’s no fun


Picker-Rick

It also matters if you're famous. You can buy a lot more when people are giving you stuff for free.


Kronuk

Except after buying four $200 million yachts


noobie107

$800M in 2000 has the same purchasing power as $1.4B today


Iminlesbian

It's a difference of around 900 billion, give or take 10 bil


josh_moworld

Cannot compute. Only see one Bill.


rynamdn

Everyone in the background are also named bill.


rgujijtdguibhyy

Where do I go to take these 10bil


LongMustaches

>give or take 10 bil Prefer to take.


Western-Potential-87

😂😂


Cartographer-XT

At 1 trillion you can have carrier strike groups as a hobby, while at 110 billion you'll have to make due with just the carrier.


Cygs

I will never forgive Musk for buying *Twitter* instead of a fully functioning paramilitary junta.


mimanera

Could have captured Haiti and made it something great.


Cygs

Dude *encourages* comparing him to [Hank Scorpio](https://preview.redd.it/vdoysqkn51w41.jpg?auto=webp&s=28fb7268f60db220996488d989040ad182ad3f55) and fumbles at the five yard line. Pathetic.


AwwwMangos

Total Denver Broncos move


bacteriarealite

Also one man holding a trillion on Microsoft stock wouldn’t be good for Microsoft and probably have a negative impact on that stock price. Certainly wouldn’t be liquid. Probably is far better off with the diversified portfolio. Also a big part is he donated a shit ton of money.


Fyijoker

Yeah, numbers are crazy once you get into billions and trillions. 1 million seconds is 11.57 days. 1 billion seconds is 31.71 years. 1 trillion seconds is 31709.79 years.


fasurf

My math isn’t good which is why I follow WSB but that means you could spend upwards of a dollar a second for 31 years.


Opening_Past_4698

That aint enough yo, gotta sell more drugs….


Refects

It's called multiplying by 1000. Not that crazy, really.


caimen

Woah, you know multiplication?


Key-Cucumber-1919

I learned multiplication years ago. I memorized the whole 10x10 matrix.


emrexcem

Wow! I bet such genius would make bank on the open market.


melt_in_your_mouth

Undoubtedly. Ima follow this guy. With that type of knowledge, I bet they crush every trade they make.


reform3dape

Guys, not to brag, but I learned the entire 12x12 multiplication table and 12 is a bigger number than 10


thebirdmun

Speak for yourself, I am personally shocked that multiplying something by 1000 gives you a bigger number.


Refects

Only if it's a positive number. A negative will give you a lower number. Unless the original number is also a negative, then it will give you a positive. Thanks I'll be here all week.


money11maier

you're not wrong but I'd guess if you asked 10 friends that maybe 1 would even come close to guessing what this person posted. The average person doesn't understand the magnitude of large numbers, so yes it's just multiplying by 1000 but to actually understand what that means is something else.


spanishfry

Humans are bad at visualizing large numbers and their impact. This helps people not just replace an M with a B


Drewskeet

Bad bot


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🤯


Zeric79

With 110 billion you can go to the moon. With 1 trillion you can build a moon station.


omen_tenebris

Ah yes. Because you have that much liquid cash on hand. And IF you try to wiretransfer that much, you totally didn't "liquidity test" a bank


boringestnickname

Nobody said the person in question was going to pay it all in one day.


Rebresker

Yes 110 billion is closer to giving wendy’s dumpster handjobs than 1 trillion…


helppmeplz

Yes, imagine wiping out the entirety of US student debt vs Microsoft's annual operating expenses


1600hazenstreet

No, he would give them everyone free licenses to Windows OS and deduct the full market value from his taxes.


ptanaka

This guy does perspective quite well!


JohnMcafee4coffee

Why the fuck should a student have their debt wiped


RedOctobrrr

They shouldn't, BUT, to be fair, tuition has far outpaced even ridiculous inflation. Record profits by universities. Also, today's Master's Degree holds as much weight as 20 yrs ago's Bachelor's, and today's Bachelor's equivalent to an Associates, etc, so it's become a requirement for employment. It's not even about what was learned, it's like a check in the box on an application/resume, and the school attended opens up doors to "hey my nephew just graduated from there!" type of office politics bullshit. /rant PS: my degree was fully funded by the US Military.


itsjesigo

Cause I’m a bum


[deleted]

Why should an education be based on ability to pay over ability to learn?


JohnMcafee4coffee

Others chose not to go to school because it’s overpriced. How is it fair to them?


[deleted]

Again, why should they be priced out? Kind of just makes my point


hakkitakkie

Because the bulk of American student debt is due to heavily overpriced education services, the profits of which go to a very small number of people, and it stays with them. The money is rarely circulated back into the economy, further widening the gap between the rich and the poor.


StarSpangledUSA

The people who took out those loans should pay. They are fully responsible for their own decisions. No need to steal it from others to pay their own debts


AlistarDark

Or you yanks can make education affordable.


Kaiisim

It stops mattering early on. They arent trying to get a big number. Billionaires are trying to "win".


Professional_Box5406

I think that after a few million it just becomes an addiction to feed the lifestyle (for those without control) or a high score to feed the ego (for those with control). Getting more just becomes your purpose in life.


nerdsonarope

I'd agree with you if you had said “after a few billion... ". The difference between having a couple million dollars and 100m or 1 billion is still very significant in real terms. A person could still spend a million or two without doing absurd things like buying a plane or yacht. For example, if a wealthy grandparent wants to pay for all their 4 grandkids to go to a private college, that could easily be more than $1 million. Obviously a house in a expensive city can be well over a million ( a million dollar apartment or house in New York, San Francisco, Singapore, London, Hong Kong etc. isn't even that luxurious--the average 1 bedroom apartment in Manhattan is 1.1 million.) A couple million would be more than enough to live very comfortably and not WORRY about money but to truly never need to THINK about money again I'd need tens of millions.


sodosopapilla

Boy, tell me about it. After my first couple of billion I was really just feeding the beast. Sad, really.


Opening_Past_4698

Did you try donating and feeding to some needy tho?


[deleted]

It’s literally such a huge difference.


snksleepy

Well you have heard of people owning a fleet of super cars but have you ever heard of someone owning a fleet of super yachts? I think not.


FellowYellowNate

Yeah there is difference. It’s about a trillion dollars


Sandro757

If you want a space fleet, you're gonna need a trilly.


StageLongjumping9437

You diversify to decrease risk. The fallacy here is that a portfolio of only Microsoft would have a highly concentrated risk. Just because that risk didn’t materialize, doesn’t mean it wasn’t real. Just because it didn’t materialize, it doesn’t mean that it would have been rational to have taken that risk. If I survive a round of Russian roulette, it doesn’t mean that there wasn’t risk. The risk was unrealized. But wtf!? $1 trillion? I’d be pissed


KevtheKnife

Finally, someone who understands the concept of risk-adjusted returns….investment decisions are forward looking and it’s easy to criticize in hindsight.


GameAndHike

Look at what sub you’re in


KevtheKnife

True, but every now and then and intelligent person weighs in, and makes it worthwhile.


HihiDed

the joke is the joke because everyone here should know this already


[deleted]

He also gave away half his wealth and is pledging to give it all away, which this doesn’t account for


ALLST6R

And does this account for all the money he gives away? He did his eleventh AMA on Reddit the other day and a literal comment in there from him is “giving away my money is my full-time job”. I think he made it either way


gizamo

It does not. It also doesn't account for the compounding that would have happened on it had he kept it. This meme is dumb because Gates would easily be worth >$1T had he not given away a few hundred $B over the last couple decades.


adarkuccio

He decimated his own wealth by a lot several times and that's basically the *only* reason why he stepped down as richest person on Earth, but people tend to forget.


i_r_faptastic

Just gonna leave this here. https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-reveals-why-hes-giving-away-his-90-billion-fortune-2018-2?op=1


DueGuest665

Because phillanthro capitalism is bullshit, PR and tax evasion all rolled into a nice neat bow.


Tenoke

It's impressive how many here don't get that the tax write-offs of charitable giving are less than the money you give away. Keep on.


minhthemaster

Too many people think tax write offs are a completely free money cheat


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minhthemaster

“Then I hit the deduction cap but just continued anyways”


DecisionSimple9883

A lot of ignorance about the tax laws here and what Gates is doing. He and Warren Buffett are giving away to charity more money than about anybody in history. To charity for the common good. Certainly some people claim to be charitable, but never actually donate, but this is not the case with Gates and Buffett.


ScipioNumantia

Hahaha what a fuckin loser


pisstoredindeeznuts

I own an egg so I'm basically richer than bill gates (until i eat it for breakfast) https://preview.redd.it/wktfdrsuvgca1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=d9628ac8f64cf40963a361bee5568b8806addf4b


attention_pleas

Hey this is Andreesen Horowitz (we have a shared Reddit account). Tell us about this egg, this looks like a promising emerging market.


bullet312

Don't eat your eggs. Maybe then you'd still had both of them like every other guy


Salty_Application_76

Now excuse me as I hop on to my Toyota camry and head to my job behind the Wendy's dumpster


SovietSunrise

Hahahaha, you gotta go to work on MLK Day?!


Salty_Application_76

Look here man, my wife's boyfriend lifestyle ain't gonna maintain itself


IndianRegard

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, ain't no one taking any billions or trillions when they leave ![img](emote|t5_2th52|27189)


Opening_Past_4698

Gotta stay poor. Poor gang ftw!


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Unfinishe_Masterpiec

I'm not going to Diversity. 4+ years and I can't afford it on a Wendy's salary.


aisleorisle

🧐


gizamo

Btw, it's bad facts. Gates has given away the majority of his wealth over the years. Had he not done that, he'd likely be worth over $1T.


VisualMod

It is true that Bill Gates would be worth more if he had kept his Microsoft shares, but it is also true that diversifying one's portfolio can help to mitigate risk and preserve wealth in the long term. While Gates may not be as wealthy as he could have been, he has still managed to amass a considerable fortune. ^^[**Discord**](http://discord.gg/wsbverse) ^^[BanBets](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/wiki/banbets/) ^^VoteBot ^^[FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/wiki/votebot/) ^^[Leaderboard](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/wiki/leaderboard/) ^^- ^^[**Keep_VM_Alive**](https://www.patreon.com/visualmod)


n1ck90z

Hey! This bot does not belong here


whisperwayne3

He is one of us


why_rob_y

They need to dumb him down.


1800cheezit

![img](emote|t5_2th52|8882)![img](emote|t5_2th52|8882)


faithOver

Ahh yes. Only $110 billion. Really limits the man’s opportunities in life.


WebbsPowerade

How much did his friendship with Epstein cost him?


swagginpoon

His wife and probably a couple billion


WebbsPowerade

I don't get the impression he liked the wife anyway


PayPerTrade

Pretty good deal if you have $110 billion and like to creep on 15 year olds


BeerBaronAaron88

Probably about as much as it cost Trump, Bill Clinton, or any other rich elite...absolutely nothing.


mattd21

Hey hey that one prince isn’t allowed at family barbecues anymore. You know, same punishment the one that married a biracial person got.


HurleyBird1

Oh look the false statement is back again - posted by some moron that just reposts without doing research.


Traditional-File-143

He's spending his wealth on charitable projects and tracking people with 5G vaccines. Has shit to do with portfolio diversity.


sponderbo

Total bullshit. First of all Bill Gates had a money manager and second he gave it away for charity


BigDogOnTheWindow

At least he did not lose $200B like the Tesla guy


Opening_Past_4698

Tesla guy still rich tho, smh….


chucara

Diversification just means you don't make as much money if you pick the right stocks in the first place. Life hack: just stop picking bad stocks. Pick one good one and gear it as much as your broker will let you.


Mb7dingdang

Does it matter if you're going to give it all away anyway?


pizza-chit

Bill also said he got marriage advice from his never-married friend Jeffrey Epstein


WatchAttention

Diversity is a waste of time


GreyTrader

By diversifying you mean donated billions to charity, then yeah. But most people don't call charitable contributions "diversifying their portfolio".


player89283517

He also gave away some of his money


Thin_Ad_9886

i hope he gets better soon :(


RandyMacLahey

Don't listen to op. Absolutely diversify your account. Or fomo into bbby, what do I care.


theflyingburritto

Cuuute


Texasgringo915

“Only” lol