why would they even be companies? Not sure if true but i read a funny: bezos ent...

notjulianjaynes · 2024-07-19T03:10:29.000000Z

Forbes is saying he's got $211 billion so more like 3 months if we're comparing to the whole dod budget

robertlagrant · 2024-07-19T10:06:25.000000Z

That's shares number of shares times current share price, not money. If he starts selling those shares they won't all sell at that price.

throwaway14356 · 2024-07-20T02:20:09.000000Z

$6.1 trillion 2023 seems 500b per month?

randomdata · 2024-07-19T03:52:59.000000Z

> why would they even be companies?

Because that's what was asserted to be in this alternate timeline. An alternate-alternate timeline could have no companies, sure, but the discussion is centred around a specific alternate timeline.