#first trillionaire

[jingszo]

"At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in 10 years," states the report, which highlights the growing inequality alongside the staggering net worth of the five men.

The emergence of a trillionaire already tells us that we've grown the pie big enough.

It's now time to think about how to divide the pie a little more equitably, or risk more social instability.

[derseprinceoftbd]

Imagine the unbearable pain of Alfred Quinque. Only person in the commune with a Real Job. I'd have killed myself way earlier.

[heyitslucky]

why am i cursed with being eepy at the wrong times of the day??? so stupid ughhh up all night even tho i got stuff to do tomorrow!!

thats it, tomorrow is also cancelled. everyone stay inside and eep❤️❤️

[rosicheeks]

I’m just so tired

[storm-of-feathers]

Like even millionaires aren't on the same level as billionaires. Do you know why? Bc if you made a dollar every second, you'd be a millionaire in a week and a half, and a billionaire in 32 years.

[rainingincale]

Bro no joke, forgetting that not everyone hates capitalism and then having to try have a reasonable conversation with someone about buying things... *eye twitch*

[thetrillionairelife]

Predicting the World's First Trillionaires

As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, it's challenging to definitively predict who will become the world's first trillionaire. The financial status of individuals can change rapidly due to various factors such as investments, business ventures, stock market fluctuations, and more. However, some of the well-known candidates who were often speculated to have the potential to reach trillionaire status included technology magnates like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other highly successful entrepreneurs in the tech industry. Please note that circumstances and rankings can change, and it's best to refer to the latest financial news and reports for the most up-to-date information on this topic.

[tuttle-did-it]

DS9 is about war. Like M*A*S*H, it’s about all wars. Every war. And, like M*A*S*H, they absolutely set out with the intention of hurting you. Not as much as M*A*S*H, of course— M*A*S*H was like hey for the next 10 years we are going to punch you in your emotional face repeatedly. And we might stab your soul… several times.., okay, way more times. Cool? Cool. We love you! Okay we’re going to stab you again. Ready?

DS9, tho, was like… hey. Hey guys. Erm… so… we have to make a deal with you. We’re going to show you what of probably the best Star Trek you’ve ever seen. Wait— don’t jump up yet. There’s a catch. We have to punch and stab you a few times, okay? Look, it’s not as often as M*A*S*H, but we’re not gonna hold back out punches like TNG did most the time. Duet. And here’s The Visitor. And Far Beyond the Stars… yeah, I won’t lie to you. We’re going to punch you a few times. Cool? Cool.

TOS shows a utopia where humans have advanced and are now decent species who don’t constantly try to destroy each other every moment.

Some TOS fans have a hard time accepting DS9 because they feel it is antithetical to Roddenberry’s vision. They don’t want allegories of fascism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or anything else. They want to be spoon-fed the hopeful and camp absurdity that humans will clean how to be decent people.

TOS- humans will advance and learn and grow and we will all live in paradise. Yay! Utopia! We are so amazing. Humans are the best! Now we get to go out into the universe and explore. (Please don’t actually recognise how racist and sexist and everything phobic our utopia is because we really are not willing to acknowledge it.) we’ve evolved. See, our tech! Our tech has evolved and we are great. And we do great things! We've solved hunger and housing and all the awful things in the world, we are worthy!! We are Good Humans, and we are ready for the universe!! Wooohoo!

DS9- it’s only paradise because you’re not looking at all the fascist dodgy stuff it took to create this paradise. And it’s easy to be a saint in paradise, it’s easy to be a decent person when you have food and clothes and shelter and everything you need. But under every paradise is a dark shady regime doing dark and shady things to keep you living in an ideal world. You are the Eloi, and you will not even acknowledge the Morlocks who are keeping your world moving. Quite frankly, the rest of the universe probably shouldn’t want to deal with us. Because when you take away our creature comforts and civilised technology we de-evolve back into the absolutely awful Neanderthals we always have been.

I probably would have started with Trials and Tribble-Ations, myself.

i've been trying to get my parents - who watched tos as it aired - into 90s trek.

tng is taking pretty well since they like cozy episodic stuff. the ds9 pilot went over okay although my mom said there was too many explosions and she prefers more individual human stories. so i was like ok, this can still work. i showed Explorers, and Facets, which they liked, and then i was like, well, i need to introduce kira, and also see if the deeper themes will click, so i tried Duet - the one where kira investigates a cardassian who's either a filing clerk or a gul of a bajoran labor camp - and they had to stop watching.

we're jewish, by the way. so that was why. just one generation of difference between me and them, and me - i am totally into allegorical depictions of fascism and colonialism and the individual's relationship to the nation they live under - and them - they can't do it, not even an allegory. no explosions, no cheesy tachyon fields, all just words, still a hard no. for me, ds9 is an ahead-of-its-time allegory for palestine. for them it was something different.

it's not like i don't have my own boundaries about discussion of irl politics, but when you're in the realm of fictional allegory, it wasn't the sort of thing i think of as needing a content warning for. it was pretty humbling.

i showed House of Quark as a palate cleanser. but i guess ds9 probably isn't for them. and i'm actually kind of wondering like. is that generational divide part of why ds9 wasn't widely received by its intended target audience at the time?

[katakaluptastrophy]

The ships … the ships were still full of people. I reached our hand out into space. I extended. I struggled. He said, I bit through the sun first. It’s human nature. That started things going.

Imagine being on those ships (and remember, not everyone in those ships was a nefarious trillionaire) zooming away from earth.

Maybe you've watched mushroom clouds blossoming across the face of the earth as you pulled away, the lines of communication fizzing out and going dead.

Watched...something...happen to the earth. Watched the sun flare and then flicker out.

I sliced through Venus, Mercury, Mars … by that point a couple of the tugs had already launched through the Kuiper. I had to kill Jupiter and Saturn in a fucking hurry. I reached … they blinked away from me … all I could do was hope that they’d watched what I was doing and all died from fucking terror. You and I went full fucking Hungry Caterpillar. We took Uranus … Neptune … crunched down Pluto … found every satellite and craft, reached in, crunched up all the humans, moved on.

You try to make contact with the installations as you pass - the small city on Mars, the helium-3 capture facility at Jupiter, the mines on Saturn's moons, the skeleton crew constructing the shell on Uranus, the Kuiper platform. Maybe the comms are eerily quiet. Or perhaps, you make contact for just a moment, enough time to witness what happens when god doesn't kill people "clean".

As you speed away, the rings of the gas giants burst asunder and the planets seem to desaturate, the readings go haywire as their magnetic fields suddenly destabilise. And something, oh god, something seems to slip away from each one, some absolute acid trip of horror, like some kind of writhing, fleeing ghost.

The moment I found the fleet spinning up to enter FTL, it was too late … I could only grab one of them … and you and I held it in the palm of our hand. I was in there with them. All those frightened people. All those runaway rats.

And then something physically stops one of the ships. Alarms are going off, sparks are flying, lights are flickering, and there's a horrifying sense of presence (if John feeling Alecto's presence was unremitting screaming inside his head, what does the presence of the newly combined John and Alecto feel like? Because I don't think that invovles less eldritch psychic screaming, somehow).

And then you break free, and spin off into some kind of warp of time and space, with the knowledge that you are the last humans left alive in the universe and that something truly terrible lurks on the husk of the earth.

Imagine 5000 years of that tale being passed down through humanity (that's equivalent to the time that passed between the stone age and the present day), as civilisations rose and fell across planets and systems.

And then imagine, one day, being the ship that encountered something they'd never seen before. A ship, of an entirely unfamiliar design, bearing an unfamiliar symbol: a skull. The whole ship is covered in bones. Sleek, designed, inlaid bones. Human bones.

When they hail you, you see humans, but not like you've seen before. They're dressed in strange outfits: military uniforms and robes that look like something from a textbook of the most ancient history. They're carrying swords. Swords! Many of them seem starved and sickly, as if their bodies are consuming themselves. They speak of their empire and their god in strange, archaic words - an impossibly ancient language from the earth that was - of the resurrection of the dead, of the Lord over the River, of necromancy.

And you realise that however horrifying the tales of the earth's death in fire, there are things worse than death.

[unicornjoking1111]

I just realised my mom has manifested her life!! (Beauty, popularity and wealth)

A short bio of my mom’s childhood!!

She is brought up in a village area and kind of in the state of poor to middle class but mostly poor since it’s not what you call a normal living cause my grandparents have farm house with goose,horses and everything you would expect there and my grandparents have four children’s and the last one is my mom! (All are girls) so it’s hard during in that century cause having a girl child Is “hard” and having a “man” will be helpful for my grandparents which is a stupid mentality but it is what it is… so my mom is one of the most beautiful I mean I am serious she looked like a doll yk skinny, small head and everything just like Korean idols but Indian eyes (iykyk) and she told me once saying how everyone see her and get jealous of her and all the college boys glancing and admiring! She also mentioned she wanted to do modelling and did modelling once in college! She mentioned that she would save money and buy clothes for herself and show off herself and everything! And she would accessories herself! This is what assumption is!! And she loved buying new clothes and everything she has like more clothes I can’t imagine like three cupboard of cloths like my god and she won’t even use it 😂

She literally manifested this shit!! This also includes money since she showed off in the sense she pretended to be a rich girl and showed off with dresses which made it looked rich (since there is no social media or anything that time or no background of the cloths when a dress looks beautiful is what is considered rich that time) so that’s why she has more wealth now and a millionaire.

Btw she is a housewife and a very lazy one (I am still proud of her) she manifested not to work and still be a millionaire by marrying my dad! But my dad also didn’t have money but they gradually evolved and became millionaires so now they are high middle class. She also created a dream house for us with gardens and it’s so beautiful!! And she takes care of other business like renting something to get income.

(Sorry for my english)

I hope this motivates yall cause I just realised I have so many people I know manifested so much things!

I also have a success story! Basically I embodied being a trillionaire, I ordered food and the delivery guy asked for tips which they never ask and I gave a little more, and Amazon delivery guy told he doesn’t have extra cash to give me and I just left it, I had enough money to buy two clothes and a bag which is so good!! Today me and my family went to a restaurant and the guy who works there opened the door for me the moment he saw me (I mean it’s his job but it was also like my first time someone opened the door for me so I would consider it a success)

[mychemicalraymance]

AS PRESIDENT MY FIRST ACT: it is now PERMANENTLY ILLEGAL FOREVER to bother people who are drawing in museums, even if u think they're inviting attention for some reason by DEIGNING to do something unusual in public. Penalty of DEATH if they are wearing headphones and obviously riding off of a particularly strong penjamin hit.

SECOND ACT: All residents who have less than 500,000 dollars in their bank accounts automatically receive 1 million dollars retrieved from billionaire and trillionaire holdings

THIRD ACT: NUKE THE WHITE HOUSE WITH ME IN IT

[babybutchianthe]

to the people who want to have a conversation about john's being an indigenous man, a māori man, i would like to remind you that the first time we see māori spoke onscreen it goes as follows.

one person in this room is interested in the cultures and languages of the world that came before, to the point her name and mission in life are respectively a human chain reaching back ten thousand years and justice for the destroyed earth: a mission that allowed her to persist beyond death, which brings her to being in control of cytherea the first's corpse. the other is john, who is disinterested in her idea of justice for them and speaks over her multiple times.

that human chain, her name? he doesn't respect it just as he doesn't respect her. this conversation is beneath him and so is her full name. he is annoyed into reciting it.

māori is spoken by john here, and it is spoken with contempt for the woman who wishes to avenge earth and whose name preserved a part of the language that he helped annihilate, along with aotearoa and all other māori people.

the first time māori is spoken in the series it is spoken by an indigenous man—who received an extensive colonial scholarship, who was alienated from his culture and sought respect and recognition in predominantly white academia, who was burned time and time again by the systems of oppression that formed the basis for climate change and the earth's abandonment by the trillionaires—who speaks it with a tone of condescension and a complete lack of gravitas because it is irrelevant to him. genuinely sad, bordering on very funny.

the second instance of māori is when he renames gideon the transliteration of her name into māori. she does not identify with it and she likely does not know its significance.

she is also a corpse: killed indirectly by cytherea the first, who presented a threat to harrow's life that could only be dealt with via her ascension to lyctorhood via gideon's death, who groomed gideon into accepting her role as cavalier primary to harrowhark nonagesimus.

killed by one of the emperor undying's fists and gestures, killed by the ideals of cavaliership which he societally instituted, killed due to cytherea the first's disillusionment with him leading her to go on a killing spree at canaan house in order to gain his attention, killed due to john and john's actions and the systems of the society he created.

the only time we see john use the māori language in a way that isn't dripping for contempt is when he renames his daughter's corpse, wherein he clarifies that she is prince kiriona gaia, heir to the emperor divine and the emperor's only daughter, the emperor's construct.

construct, like the skeletons that farm leeks on the ninth. she is not entitled to resurrection: she is to ownership, to being the ninth's chattel in life and her father's construct in death. he uses the language to declare her his.

gideon is the name of his saint, his oldest friend, spoken by the ghost of the woman that birthed her, to the nuns of her house—kiriona is john declaring a corpse his heir, and his daughter his construct.

there is a conversation i would love to have about john's indigeneity: it's the one where we acknowledge that after wakes death he has preserved the legacy of the māori language by using it to name his daughter, a māori woman killed by his society and the consequences of his actions, something she doesn't feel any connection to.

john is an indigenous man, a māori man, who was born into a land settled by colonisers who rendered it rife with systems of oppression that alienated him from his culture, and led him to fall back on the same systems of oppression when he founded the nine houses. indigeneity describes a relation to colonisation and settler capital, primarily in the form of dispossession; when john declared kiriona his, did he do so as an indigenous man or as the emperor of an empire that ships populations between planets like cattle?

[mysharona1987]

[zais-zafu]

୨ৎ rich girl ୨ৎ

I am so rich it is insane. I am the richest person to ever walk this earth. I have always been rich. I come from old money and my wealth just keeps on growing. I am deserving of all the money I have. I deserve to be showered with money. money is so easy to make. money has always been there. I never find it hard to make more money.

money just keeps on growing. money just keeps on coming from expected and unexpected sources. it is so easy to make money. I am a money making machine. I'm a magnet for money!! I love making money. I was born to be rich. it is my birthright. I'm rich. I am literally so rich it is insane. everyone wonders how I got this rich. I keep on getting money all the time. I make money in my sleep. I make money while having fun. I'm living my best life while also making money.

I make trillions every day. I am the first trillionaire ever to walk this earth. I broke records with the money I make. I make money the way I want to make it. I make money by inspiring others. I'm making money through helping others. all the money I have I got it cos I deserve it. I am so worthy of money.

people wanna give me money. people love giving me money. money is so fucking easy to make. money has always been there form me. I'm so loved by money. money loves me. I love money too, like it is not possible for me not to love her when she's always been there for me yk? money got me the lifestyle I want. I am blessed with the lifestyle I want, like God, thanks for all the money!!

I feel so happy that I get to make money and share it with others. I feel so relaxed and safe knowing that I don't have to work a day in my life. all the bills are paid for. I get to live anywhere. I am so excited to treat all my friends & family with the money I have. I am literally the rich aunt stereotype bumped to a 100!! it really do be so easy to make money!

I've never feared money cos I've always been abundant. I have been taught since I was a child that money is easy to make so that is why money is easy to make. I have amazing beliefs around money so that is what reflects back. my mind is so malleable, doesn't matter what I thought of before cos now ik for a fact that money is the most abundant resource in the world!! it is normal for anyone to get rich like millionaires are just regular people you see everywhere, I'm literally the perfect example of that. money has always been easy to make, it is literally paper, just a number.

I'm so grateful for the money I have right now. Thank you God for always helping me when it came to money. I am so grateful for all the freedom I get to have cos of the ridiculous amounts of money I got. my bank is full. people wonder how I got all this money. well it's with the power of my mind! I decided that I'm rich so instantly I became rich!!

[bb-enablefreebuild]

The funniest thing abt the Lyctors is how out of touch they are. John murdering an entire solar system to get revenge on the trillionaires. Mercymorn killed John even though she knew the consequences of killing millions of people in the Nine Houses System. She would NOT have killed him had his actions not directly affected her. AUGUSTINE TELEPORTING THE ENTIRE MITHRAEUM INTO THE RIVER TO KILL JOHN even though there were innocent people on the ship (Griddle and Ianthe). Gideon the First is dedicated to Duty no matter the price. Live laugh love the horrific results of being immortal <3

[fat-fuck-hairy-belly]

Really cool how Elon Musk is literally one of the most stupid people alive, but he's also predicted to be the world's first trillionaire by 2027.