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The GDP of the USA is $14.12 trillion dollars. If you're truly the kind of people who seek to move the world forward, 58 million dollars is nothing.
by bitanarch 15y ago
The GDP of the USA is $14.12 trillion dollars. If you're truly the kind of people who seek to move the world forward, 58 million dollars is nothing.
- ugh 15y agoIf your idea for changing the world includes buying all the products and services the US economy produces in one year $58m is certainly not enough. I’m just not sure what kind of plan for changing the world that is. Money is certainly handy when your plan is to change the world but it’s far from the only thing you need and probably not even the most important one. An idea and a plan seems quite important, for example. Just throwing money at a problem will seldom get you very far. Also, even a few billion won’t save you when some super power declares you a criminal, takes away all your money and throws you into prison or executes you.
- bitanarch 15y agoNo. If you really pushed the world forward (notice the scale involved), then you logically should have a significant positive effect on the $14.12 trillion dollars of production every year - e.g. increased it by 3% over 10 years. So your contribution to the world economy would be $423.5 billion over 10 years. At that scale, getting $58M is really nothing. In fact, only getting $58M back for $423.5 billion of contribution smells like communism.