The 24 richest people in the world have more money than neurons in their brains

a day ago by morto to c/showerthoughts

According to wikipedia, we have around 86 billion neurons in the brain.

WeirdGoesPro 29 points a day ago

So if Elon Musk is really a trillionaire, then one man has more money than neurons.

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morto 47 points a day ago

Arguably, that specific man would have more money than neurons even if he was poor

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WeirdGoesPro 16 points a day ago

TIL I have more money than Elon Musk has neurons.

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Z745812939054 11 points a day ago

so...a dollar?

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idiomaddict 9 points a day ago

One might even say: more dollars than sense.

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TropicalDingdong 14 points a day ago

More money than sense

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Eric 12 points a day ago

More dollars than sense

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Alvaro 11 points a day ago

Most USA citizens have more money than neurons if you evaluate it in different currencies. For example, the median networth in the usa is 92,000$ which is about 127 billion iranian rials

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morto 5 points a day ago

In the end, most people can really be billionaires if they change their mindset!

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schnurrito 1 point a day ago

Correct. Division of money into currency units is entirely arbitrary, there are many currencies where a thousand units is a wildly different amount from a thousand US dollars or euros or similar-valued units.

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Lydia_K 8 points a day ago

If only money could think

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Mouselemming 3 points a day ago

Hopefully a lot of it would say, "I'm tired of hanging out in the same old crowded places, I'm gonna go where we're few and far between."

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nonentity 7 points a day ago

Financial obesity is neurotoxic.

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OriginEnergySux 5 points a day ago

There's gotta be a cap on wealth accumulation

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CombatWombat 4 points a day ago

If you're willing to engage with the analogy of dollars as neurons, what do you think the economy is thinking about?

edit: I like this because if you think of monetary exchange as neuron activation then the mega-rich hoarding wealth is the biggest inhibition to the ability of the economy to think properly, since their money doesn't participate.

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morto 2 points a day ago

Hard to know. The imbalance of neuron distribution in that context is very unhealthy and makes it hard to think

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heartSagan5 4 points a day ago

Bunch of dragons.

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ilinamorato 3 points a day ago

They each have dozens of dollars?

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BarneyPiccolo 3 points a day ago

Charter Members of the "More Money Than Brains" Club

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Proprietary_Blend 2 points a day ago

Neat

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