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The value is tecknically the effect of what is called a stock market, and it does vary quite a bit over time as perceptions and economic factors change

Your things didn't increase in perceived value as much as Amazon then

amazon grows its revenue → amazon stock value increases → amazon share holder richer

Many companies also pay dividends directly to the share holder but iirc Amazon has preferred to reinvest in growth

Amazon has been really successful in several domains and he's owned a lot of it from the start

Although if you did earn $5k per day and managed to invest at a yearly return of 3% above inflation, you'd have about $41 trillion

At 1% above interest you'd just have $3.6 billion so invest wisely

(edit, corrected the numbers)

So if we make refusal to vacate a uterus a capital offense, we have a path to compromise

Well, one is a poll, one is a meme with no data source or explanation of what's been done to get to the possibly not very correct number

Here's a pew research thing finding about 61% of men supporting abortion in the US in 2024; lagging behind women at 64% but not by much

You sound very unhappy with being alone. If you feel stuck and like you've tried everything you can think of, it might be a good time to ask for help from a therapist or similar. They might have ideas or tools you haven't thought of yet

People in relationships can be miserable and feel extremely alone too, if the relationship isn't working well. It's not a one-stop-shop to happiness sadly

I hope you figure it out and start feeling better

If you're frictionless too, physicists will love you

The wikipedia page has a calculator that supports metric more properly

That would explain the confusion. Yeah I imagine there could be other approaches to this than hitting the base