This chart explores a hypothetical question: how much money exists in the world per person?Defining “all the world’s money” is complex, with multiple ways to calculate it. Here, we use global M2 money supply at the end of 2024, sourced from CEIC Data.See the final section for an explanation of this metric, what it measures, and why economists track it.Population data is sourced from the UN World Population Prospects 2024.
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64 sats \ 9 replies \ @freetx 16h
A more interesting way to look at this is: What is the multiple over the per-capita that represents being "rich".
So I would argue that "Rich" (defined as being able to live a middle-class lifestyle indefinitely without ever exhausting your investments) to be about $3M. Therefore thats a 200x multiple over per capita.
Would be interesting to compare this 200x multiple for Bitcoin...
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @Bell_curve 12h
3 million sounds about right
I know people who live in 2 million dollar houses but they also financed half of it
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @freetx 12h
People in general underestimate how much they need to fully retire.
Inflation is easily 4% per year....so you need to grow your nest-egg at least at that level to sustain your wealth.
That means that if you can earn ~9% in market, and re-invest 4% that gives you 5% per year to live on (about 150K per year).
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 12h
my mother is a 'millionaire' on paper but all of her wealth is tied in real estate. She gets cash flow from her real estate and also collects social security but she doesn't have 3 million in liquid assets. In addition she has to pay property taxes and has debt financing close to 600,000
The point is she is not 'rich' because of debt and lack of liquidity
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 12h
In the 90s, I knew someone whos parents owned something like 300 acres of land. It was farm land that they leased out to farmers....the made a decent income from rental but definitely only like middle-class income.
Their parents died and so was left to him. The "exemption" was something like 500K....and the 300 acres were probably valued at $1.5M....so he was hit with a tax bill on the $1M.
Obviously this forced him to sell off the land. Its how the gov destroys familial wealth.
Thankfully I think the exclusion is much higher now.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 12h
the threshold for estate tax is now 13.9 million, set to revert to 5 million in 2026 unless Congress extends them
The estate tax should be repealed
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19 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 16h
With a million, I already felt rich. I could live without having to work and comfortably for the rest of my life!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 15h
Guess its dependent on where you are....in US median house prices are probably 450K
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 15h
indeed
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 12h
one million is a psychological barrier for Dr Evil
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57 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 17h
What's $123T divided by 21M?
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36 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner OP 16h
Is bitcoin's future cap per BTC? 🤠
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 16h
Nope. It's just an interesting number to be aware of.
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 16h
seems a little bit like a silly number. Obviously this number is very distorted by right-tail numbers ++ especially for physical U.S. cash dollars... Not like the cash hoards of the like of Pablo Escobar is a relevant metric for the rest of us/humanity as a whole
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 14h
262500 sats
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 14h
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 15h
This seems the wet dream of a "socialist-Keynesian."
Distribute the wealth among all and do nothing more ... which shows us that it only gives you for a purchase of food that reaches you to live two years or a used car ...
It is impressive ...
I like the vision that there are only 21M and just only 2T of Mcap
And that in BTC there is no equality, everyone saves as they can, and stacks as they can, individually.
There are approximately 900T in all capitals in the world, Fiat, gold, bonds, real estate among others. And the best asset of all has only 2T of the 900T available and we live in a world where soft money is created infinitely to feed the Mcap of active real ones. That is, it is still early.
Very bullish 💪🤠 And I only have an option to choose from. 🍊⚡
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 14h
Accordingly to this math 300k sats equals to $15'000 or $0.05 per sat, so far
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 16h
I understand that the global money supply does not represent real wealth entirely—it is partially backed by it, while the rest is virtual wealth. What I mean by this is that future fair value projections for Bitcoin are indeed promising as more people realize it is the superior currency.
It’s interesting to see that, despite the wealth in the world, if it were truly distributed equally, it would result in nothing more than equal misery.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 12h
these computations are meaningless because of exchange rates, different currencies and different standards of living
everything is relative
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