Imagine that you are in the vault with the whole of America’s national debt. Say, too, for the sake of argument, that you could keep each and every dollar bill that you initialled and that you could initial a dollar bill every second, and that you could somehow work straight through without stopping.
How long do you think it would take to accumulate a trillion dollars? Take a guess. Twelve weeks? Five years?
Well, if you initialled one dollar per second and worked without stopping, you would make $1000 every 17 minutes. After 12 days of effort, you would acquire your first million. Thus it would take you 120 days to accumulate $10 million and 1200 days to reach $100 million. After 31.7 years you would become a billionaire.
For the record, and to save you doing the sum, it would not be until after 31,708.8 years that you would count your trillionth dollar.
At what point would you stop and think you have enough money?
thats a good point, but is there such a thing as enough. human nature dictates that the more you have is the more you want, and there are a miriad of excuses to justify the wanting of more.
No cheating or creative accounting allowed. Assume you are on your own.
To justify my boredom I will call it a social experiment entitled, ‘Money Magnetism’. Now really bored to have a cretive title.
The results will be forwarded to all the organisations / firms i.e. FSA, Treasury Dept, hedge funds, tax office:hehe:
if you sepnt every second of every day counting dollars then you would need no money and so your quest would be pointless, made worse by the fact that my local doesn’t accept dollar bills and neither does my local bike shop.
so ultimately your quest would get you nowhere other than under a pile of useless money smelling strongly of your own wee
