The Insane Scale of Jeff Bezos' Wealth Visualized

this video was made possible by skillshare the first 1000 people to use the link in my description will get a free trial of skillshare premium jeff bezos is a man with a lot of money at the absolute pinnacle of his drug empire pablo escobar was worth an estimated 59 billion dollars in today's money in september of 2020 jeff bezos's net worth exceeded 204.6 billion dollars more than three times the amount of wealth that pablo escobar ever held understanding just how enormous of a fortune 204.6 billion dollars actually is is quite difficult for the human mind so in this video i'll be doing my best to put that insane level of wealth into perspective for you let's begin with this map haiti madagascar mozambique malawi zambia the democratic republic of the congo the republic of the congo burundi uganda the central african republic cameroon djibouti sudan chad niger benin togo burkina faso mali mauritania liberia sierra leone guinea guinea bissau the gambia syria afghanistan and ukraine nearly 270 million adults representing 3.5 of the human population versus jeff bezos a single man who has more wealth than every single person living in all of these countries have combined jeff bezos's wealth is so astronomical imagine for a moment that you were immortal and you got a job that paid you eight thousand dollars every single hour that you were alive if you first got this job at the time of the birth of christ and were continuously making eight thousand dollars an hour every single hour that has ever happened since then across more than 2 000 years of history you'd still not have anywhere near close to enough wealth as jeff bezos has on july 20th earlier this year in 2020 jeff bezos's wealth increased by over 13 billion dollars in a single day jeff bezos's wealth increased by more than the entire annual gdp of madagascar a country of over 26 million people to put his overall wealth into even more perspective bezos total fortune of over 204.6 billion dollars is more than the entire annual gdp of indonesia the world's 16th largest economy and home to over 267 million people it is also more than double the combined net worth of the entire british royal family which is presently valued at around 80 billion dollars but enough with comparing jeff bezos's fortune with countries and monarchs let's compare his wealth to something a bit more easy for all of us to understand the base price of a 2019 toyota corolla is eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars jeff bezos's fortune if converted into pure cash would be enough to purchase 10 941 1176 of these 2019 toyota corollas if toyota concentrated 100 of its factories and production into only producing corollas and nothing else it would still take the entire company over an entire year to produce that many for him let's think of his wealth in another sense the average american worker earns a salary of forty nine thousand seven hundred and sixty four dollars per year in order for the average american worker to save up enough wealth to match jeff bezos they would have to work for four million one hundred eleven thousand and four 405 years put into another perspective jeff bezos has added 70 billion dollars to his wealth over the past 12 months from september 2019 to september 2020. that means that over the last year jeff bezos accumulated 9 million dollars every hour 149 000 every minute and 2 489 every single second now start a timer from september 1st 2019 to september 1st 2020 in just the first nine minutes of this year jeff bezos gained more wealth than the average college-educated american woman will in her entire lifetime and in only 15 minutes more than the average college educated american man will in his lifetime as well 27 minutes into the year and bezos has already gained more wealth than the average american lawyer will in their entire lifetime 45 minutes into the year and he's already gained more than the average american doctor will in their entire lifetime just five and a half hours into the year and he's already gained more wealth than the entire net worth of david solomon the ceo of goldman sachs within the first eight working hours of the year he's already gained more wealth than the entire annual gdp of tuvalu by the end of day two his wealth has already increased more than the entire net worth of beyonce by the end of day three his wealth has increased more than the entire net worth of tim cook the ceo of apple by the end of the first week he personally gained more wealth than the entire annual profits of pizza hut taco bell kentucky fried chicken and wing street all combined within the first month he personally again has gained more wealth than the entire annual revenue of gamestop a corporation with 56 000 employees two months in and he has acquired more wealth than the entire annual gdp of zimbabwe a country with over 16 million people and finally by the end of the year he had acquired 70 billion dollars an amount of wealth that's largely equal to the entire annual gdp of venezuela during the same year a country with over 28 million people that controls the largest amount of proven oil reserves anywhere in the entire world and all of this isn't even close to being halfway there to all of jeff bezos's fortune of 204.6 billion dollars even compared to other historical figures from american history jeff bezos is still extraordinarily wealthy adjusted for inflation today jeff bezos is even wealthier today than henry ford was at the time of his death and is roughly equivalent in wealth to cornelius vanderbilt during the gilded age in the 19th century the wealthiest man to have ever lived in modern history was john d rockefeller who at the time of his death in 1937 was worth an estimated 418 billion dollars adjusted for inflation today nearly double the wealth of jeff bezos rockefeller was so enormously wealthy that his net worth was equivalent to three percent of the entire united states gdp at that time however rockefeller died with that net worth at the age of 97. jeff bezos has roughly half that amount of wealth but he's only 56. in my opinion it's very probable that within a few years bezos will not only surpass rockefeller's wealth but will likely become humanity's first trillionaire as well here's how the average annual rate of return in the stock market is around six percent per year if jeff bezos simply maintains that average rate of return on his wealth then he will surpass the net worth of rockefeller within the next 13 years when he's only 69 and he will become humanity's first trillionaire within the next 28 years when he's 84. it's very reasonable to assume that the world's wealthiest man with access to the best healthcare imaginable will survive to 84 years old and by that time it's probable that bezos will have accumulated an entire trillion dollars in wealth for himself 204.6 billion dollars is an incredibly difficult amount to visualize but what's even more incredible is how rapidly jeff bezos has acquired that much he was born to a 17 year old mother still in high school and his father simply owned a bicycle shop he worked at mcdonald's in high school and he founded amazon in 1994 inside of his garage founding a business is challenging and founding a business that goes on to become the second most valuable corporation in the world that boosts you up to the world's wealthiest man is even more challenging it takes a lot of skills and talents across a variety of different fields that each require practice so if you've made it this far into the video and you're wanting to learn the skills it takes to be better at anything i'd recommend that you go and check out skillshare next where they've got a ton of classes on pretty much anything you'd like to get better at want to finally take the jump and become a full-time freelancer i'd recommend the class going freelance building and branding your own success by justin gignac want to get better at studying for exams my friend ali abdull 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Length: 9min 45sec (585 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 28 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/The_Minefighter]

Maybe, just maybe we should tax wealthy people a tiny bit more so that we can at least afford to survive and not get killed by healthcare bills, but that would be communism.