The way I always wrap my head around this kind of thing: the median household net worth in the United States is $193,000; the median household size is 2.6 people.
If you collected enough median net-worth people to cumulatively have as much money as Bezos, they'd have a larger population than Nevada
again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
For Elon Musk the population would be greater than Georgia or North Carolina. Almost as many as the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Feb 4, 2026 19:00
