Comment by dtech
1 year ago
They got it over many years with ongoing expenses because they had a browser, so comparing it with 7B lump sum is silly.
With the same argument you could probably retire, after all you already earned (years you've been working) * (average salary).
>so comparing it with 7B lump sum is silly.
It's not that silly, because that's a huge amount of money. What do you think the gross expense of building software like this should be? Because this may be the end of the line.
How much has Google spent on Chrome.
Big numbers without context are not useful outside of taking advantage of people who don't think critically.
I don't know... do they even have 100 engineers? Or 20 and the rest is management and crypto and AI projects?
so if I've worked for 20 years from age 20 with a 100k average salary that's 2m
A 2m lump sump at 20 would allow me to live a lifestyle of a 20k/year life, not good enough.
Had I lived that over the last 20 years and saved the rest of the 100k in an 8% return fund then I'd have 4m today and could drawdown a 40k/year life at 1%.
Had I been given a lump sum of 100 times my desired salary though, or 10m, then sure, no need to work.
And depending on where you live, 40k might be barely scraping by now, and certainly not enough another 20 or 40 years down the road when you get to the point where you need daily care and medical services.
You may want to double check your math before you retire.
You are right, they got $400M+ a year.
I stand corrected, I would want to face the $400M+ per year existential wobble.