Would it kill you to google?

It wouldn’t surprise me if the numbers were similar (afterall, most homeless are not perennially so), but still.

And that’s just geometric distance! Measured Arithmetically, everyone poorer than Warren Buffet is closer to being homeless than they are to elon musk.

That would be to get to a $ 1 million, but musk would cease to be a billionaire at $ 999.99 million. That’s the “close” side of millionaire to him, so what I used. 1/780000th would be to get into the region of a normal upper-middle class American.

• US homeless population: 770,000
• US millionaire population: 6.9 million

Stats from statista, and scrutinisable but ballpark accurate. Is 770,000 much too high? yes.

yeah, but the original is true as well, and is better at making the point you want to make.

• If you have a net worth of $10k, you’re $990k to go (or a 100 x multiple) to one million.

• To be a millionaire again, Musk would need to be worth $778.01 billion less or worth 1/780th what he is right now.

The original message: “What many people only ever dream of achieving is so far beneath the ultra-rich it would be laughable if not for the tragedy”

Your message: “Ordinary people are poorer than elon musk” (Duh)

If Soong had designed data with the intent to make his creator rich and powerful beyond any sanity or measure. (Instead of being a chill nerd) there’s no doubt in my mind startrek would be a lot less utopian.

Also starfleet have had that level of computational complexity for 2 or 3 centuries and never actually managed to create a superintelligent AI that was a match for human pluck and ingenuity, so an AI takeover probably isn’t a possibility in that Universe. (Same goes (I think) for all the millenia old Alien societies).

Supermodels have deer DNA injections now, this gives them that gorgeous “fifty seconds from a heart attack” chic

what did the poor duck do to be stuck in this cyber-swamp?

Jasla? JoseJeinsteinJohndensate?