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Episode 3 Humans Are Terrible With Numbers + World's First Trillionaire

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The human brain is terrible at numbers because we evolved during times where large numbers were not necessary for survival. We traveled in packs of dozens or hundreds for most of our ancestry and hunted and gathered for our food. It isn't until the last few thousand years that we started to see and understand the world in a Global scale and that amount of time is nothing in the eyes of humanity. Our globalization is still freshly born, barely taking its first breath yet. Meanwhile, the world has its first trillionaire already... This episode talks about the disparity between Elon and literally everyone else on this planet, including the second richest person as well as how we as humans have done this to ourselves. Poverty in the US: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-287.html US Billionaires: https://fortune.com/2025/12/08/how-many-billionaires-does-america-world-have-ubs/ More Debt than Money: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2025/09/17/global-debt-remains-above-235-of-world-gdp

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