I think what you intended to say is “There are a lot of things which would make people happy, except that they are not financially feasible.”
Also, when discussing amounts of money which approach the GNP of a small country, you can’t just ‘get’ the wealth without there also coming into existence a small country whose GNP you get. For small amounts of wealth, rounding errors in inflation will mask the effect.
Well, the world’s current GDP is about 70 trillion dollars. $10 billion is about 0.014% of that, which seems like it’d be within the error bars of at least a consumer-level presentation of its inflation.
$10 billion dollars a year is then roughly 80 minutes of every single person’s time, assuming all people are productive 24⁄365 and all productive time is included in the world GDP; or about 15 minutes of working time for everyone who is included in the world GDP, assuming they average a 2000 work-hour year.
I think what you intended to say is “There are a lot of things which would make people happy, except that they are not financially feasible.”
Also, when discussing amounts of money which approach the GNP of a small country, you can’t just ‘get’ the wealth without there also coming into existence a small country whose GNP you get. For small amounts of wealth, rounding errors in inflation will mask the effect.
Well, the world’s current GDP is about 70 trillion dollars. $10 billion is about 0.014% of that, which seems like it’d be within the error bars of at least a consumer-level presentation of its inflation.
$10 billion dollars a year is then roughly 80 minutes of every single person’s time, assuming all people are productive 24⁄365 and all productive time is included in the world GDP; or about 15 minutes of working time for everyone who is included in the world GDP, assuming they average a 2000 work-hour year.