Neil deGrasse Tyson Puts Bill Gates’ Wealth into Funny Perspective

in Business, Random | May 22nd, 2014 6 Comments

Astro­physi­cist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a way of putting things into per­spec­tive. Usu­al­ly he’s look­ing at where we — our plan­et, our civ­i­liza­tion — sit in rela­tion­ship to the larg­er cos­mos. But, in this clip record­ed at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton in 2011, he’s help­ing us wrap our head around some­thing equal­ly unfath­omable and seem­ing­ly infi­nite: Bill Gates’ big pile of mon­ey.

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  • Oscar Cox says:
    May 23, 2014 at 10:11 am

    Does EVERYBODY in Amer­i­ca think they have to be fun­ny when they speak before an audi­ence?

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  • Dave Beitz says:
    May 23, 2014 at 11:35 am

    Neil used a net worth of $278,000 for his math.

    Was he try­ing to esti­mate the net worth of the audi­ence?

    I would assume Neil has con­sid­er­ably more than that.

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  • Stephen Gunther says:
    May 23, 2014 at 3:48 pm

    Neil deGrasse Tyson for pres­i­dent.

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  • Gloria Chen says:
    May 24, 2014 at 12:55 pm

    Maybe he is not com­par­ing his net worth, but rather his year­ly income. Not apple to apple and not all that truth­ful.

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  • Stuffed Bear says:
    July 26, 2015 at 9:44 pm

    Fun­ny that Neil, spoke of this, because yes­ter­day I was walk­ing down the street, and I was fol­low­ing Bill, and Malin­da, when an armored truck went around a cor­ner, the back door flew open and a bag of mon­ey flew out.

    Malin­da picked up the bag, looked inside then tossed it to Bill, he looked into it, then stopped, turned around and tossed it to me, because it was full of 50 dol­lar bills, and it just wasn’t worth car­ry­ing.

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  • StuffedBear says:
    July 26, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    Fun­ny that Neil, spoke of this, because yes­ter­day I was walk­ing down the street, and I was fol­low­ing Bill, and Malin­da, when an armored truck went around a cor­ner, the back door flew open and a bag of mon­ey flew out.

    Malin­da picked up the bag, looked inside then tossed it to Bill, he looked into it, then stopped, turned around and tossed it to me, because it was full of 50 dol­lar bills, and it just wasn’t worth car­ry­ing.

    Reply

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