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i wonder how long before every living person has an ancestor who was a billionaire in 2023
by ftxbro 3y ago
i wonder how long before every living person has an ancestor who was a billionaire in 2023
- hardware2win 3y agoWhat do you mean?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- T-A 3y agoPresumably mass die-off with only a few billionaires and their nearest kin surviving in deep underground bunkers.
- teeray 3y agoA billion dollars was a lot of money in those days
- falcor84 3y agoI would hazard a guess that the survivability (and likely the reproductive fitness) of the private security professionals of these billionaires is at least as high.
- arethuza 3y ago"private security professionals" Why would they have any need for their billionaires after society collapses?
- AlgorithmicTime 3y ago[dead]
- zuminator 3y agoX-chromosomal Elon?
- OscarCunningham 3y agoThere are currently around 3000 billionaires out of 8 billion people, about 1 in 2 million. Assuming billionaires have an average number of children, the proportion of population who is descended from them must double every generation, regardless of overall birth rates. The factor of 2 million is about 2^21, so we need 21 generations. A generation is about 25 years. So our final answer is about 525 years from now, i.e. around 2550. This assumes that age of death retains the same bounds as currently. If old age is cured before 2550 then someone not descended from a 2023 billionaire might live until the end of the universe.