If you adjust for inflation the numbers might not be so shocking. I googled a calculator and it claimed 1T dollars now was 250 bil back in 1976. China's populat

If you adjust for inflation the numbers might not be so shocking. I googled a calculator and it claimed 1T dollars now was 250 bil back in 1976. China's population also increased over 50%, so that's another pretty big multiplier. It's quite fascinating how fast growth in the world is in general. It reminds me of a talk about the speed of the "seemingly small" 7% per year growth.