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Originally Posted by Mdmtx
Just an FYI. If you placed 1 billion in the bank and could only get 4% compounded ANNUALLY you would earn $109,589.04 in interest daily. Let that sink in. Daily. Plus whatever the person did to create the billion to begin with. To assume a billionaire wouldn't/couldn't make this kind of purchase is short sighted. Looks to me like he/she could buy 2 a week and never touch their principal, including shipping.
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You're missing the point. No one said the person couldn't buy it (or ten of them). It's that the person SHOULDN'T.
The billionaire could afford a gold toilet too -- that's just called hedonism and gaudy decadence...