500 million. That was a lot of money. It was kind of difficult to picture how much that kind of money was.
The average American lives on 50,000 a year. Of course that was the average. Meaning half of Americans live below that. I personally was one of them for as long as I could remember. For my country men were expected to last 73 years.
Combining these two statistics paints a pretty ugly picture. That meant that on average, if a person started working at 18 till he retired at 65 that person would only earn $2,350,000 across 47 years. And that number was bullshit on itself.
No one started out earning 50,00 a year. For new graduates I didn't even know how long you would need to work to reach that. I mean even when I died, I only had a salary of $35,000 so I was below the average. And that was not even taking into account inflation.