How to Steal a Billion
That&#x27;s the funny thing about Billions-with-a-b: normal thinking about money and value just doesn&#x27;t work IMO.<p>The Vision Fund is going to lose ~$19 billion. But Masa Son still controls <i>over $80 billion.</i> That&#x27;s more wealth and power than almost any human being will ever have in history, ever.<p>At that point the numbers don&#x27;t even matter. Maybe Neumann took Masa Son for $50 billion. Who cares? A person can live in the USA for their whole lives without working on as little as $3-5 <i>million.</i> Throwing billions around like this, especially when it&#x27;s digital&#x2F;paper money in the form of stocks and big corporate deals, really puts the absurdity sprinkles on top of this whole turd bowl.<p>It&#x27;s this kind of thing that makes people lose confidence in the system. Most people out here are sweating medical bills in the low $10,000&#x27;s, while the news is talking about billions being gained and lost in the span of a few weeks - so fast it makes you wonder if that amount of wealth really even existed in the first place.<p>How much has to be &quot;lost&quot; between digital transactions before the numbers become completely meaningless? A trillion? A quadrillion?