2 ways to become a trillionaire easily

[scrumptious]

1. Once near light speed technology comes around, amass enough money to pay for a near light speed round trip, but before you go, invest some money with some portfolio that will give you higher than inflation returns ... even if just 1% higher. When you return, you'll have aged maybe just one year but the world will have aged maybe 1,000 years and you can then just cash in on your investment (with all the compounded returns).

2. Same as above but once this becomes legal (is it legal today?) cyrogenically freeze yourself. By the time they can safely defrost you, it will be maybe 1,000 years and then you'd be an instant trillionaire or zillionaire.

[xtop]

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[toef]

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[mikejet]

I'd steal the trillion dollar bill from Castro that he took from Mr. Burns.

[Mike53421]

Somebody wake and bake today?

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by scrumptious

1. Once near light speed technology comes around, amass enough money to pay for a near light speed round trip, but before you go, invest some money with some portfolio that will give you higher than inflation returns ... even if just 1% higher. When you return, you'll have aged maybe just one year but the world will have aged maybe 1,000 years and you can then just cash in on your investment (with all the compounded returns).

2. Same as above but once this becomes legal (is it legal today?) cyrogenically freeze yourself. By the time they can safely defrost you, it will be maybe 1,000 years and then you'd be an instant trillionaire or zillionaire.

Sounds like a plan.

[Blu_Ray_UK2007]

Originally Posted by Mike53421

Somebody wake and bake today?

[jw]

[quexos]

Originally Posted by scrumptious

1. Once near light speed technology comes around, amass enough money to pay for a near light speed round trip, but before you go, invest some money with some portfolio that will give you higher than inflation returns ... even if just 1% higher. When you return, you'll have aged maybe just one year but the world will have aged maybe 1,000 years and you can then just cash in on your investment (with all the compounded returns).

In order to obtain a ratio of 1 to a 1000 years of time-space warp, one would need to come so close to light speeds and the amount of energy needed would be way, way (and I mean WAAAAY) higher than anything ever made on earth that the money you'd make wouldn't even remotely pay for your energy bill.

The cryogenic solution is more viable in terms of what it will cost you compared to the money you'll make but I'm not sure a 1000 years will be enough for interests to become that much interesting.

[OrlandoEastwood]

Look at Mel Gibson's divorce. His wife is walking away with half a billion! HALF A BILLION!

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

Look at Mel Gibson's divorce. His wife is walking away with half a billion! HALF A BILLION!

Dude, he has like 600 million, she's only getting 300 at best

1000 million = 1 billion

Sorry for pointing it out

[xtop]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

Dude, he has like 600 million, she's only getting 300 at best

1000 million = 1 billion

Sorry for pointing it out

from what i read he's been said to be worth a billion. did they find out for sure its only 600 million?

[tommyboy81]

Sorry but I'll wait for Ludacris Speed. What Light Speed?

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by xtop

from what i read he's been said to be worth a billion. did they find out for sure its only 600 million?

Well, i guess you could say he's worth 1 billion but what he actually HAS are two different things

I think courts usually settle on figures they have & not what they're worth cause Net Worth is kinds useless on people, it's like a what they can earn figure on people & a what amount a company can sell for if they decide to

[Purplegrasshopper]

Originally Posted by scrumptious

1. Once near light speed technology comes around, amass enough money to pay for a near light speed round trip, but before you go, invest some money with some portfolio that will give you higher than inflation returns ... even if just 1% higher. When you return, you'll have aged maybe just one year but the world will have aged maybe 1,000 years and you can then just cash in on your investment (with all the compounded returns).

2. Same as above but once this becomes legal (is it legal today?) cyrogenically freeze yourself. By the time they can safely defrost you, it will be maybe 1,000 years and then you'd be an instant trillionaire or zillionaire.

This assumes the portfolio you invested in even exists 1000 years from now. It is highly unlikely it would. Just look at the companies here in the United States. There are but a few that have existed for even more than 100 years. It might be better instead of investing in stocks or bonds to invest in commodities, particularly those that are always in demand.

[Kirsty_Mc]

Way off.

By far the easiest way of becoming a Trillionaire is to Travel to Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) and change your money into the local currency.

Not that it will do you much good, but at least you'll be able to say that you were at one point a Trillionaire.

[scrumptious]

Originally Posted by Purplegrasshopper

This assumes the portfolio you invested in even exists 1000 years from now. It is highly unlikely it would. Just look at the companies here in the United States. There are but a few that have existed for even more than 100 years. It might be better instead of investing in stocks or bonds to invest in commodities, particularly those that are always in demand.

True but you could just put it in the hands of a Too Big To Fail mutual fund or money market fund which would always be bailed out and which would adjust the portfolio as time goes by. I think investing in Goldman Sachs would be good too. They were around from the beginning and are still around.

[scrumptious]

Originally Posted by quexos

In order to obtain a ratio of 1 to a 1000 years of time-space warp, one would need to come so close to light speeds and the amount of energy needed would be way, way (and I mean WAAAAY) higher than anything ever made on earth that the money you'd make wouldn't even remotely pay for your energy bill.

There are some technologies that will let you come as close as you want to the speed of light but they are at least a century away. Hydrogen fusion engines will have unlimited fuel since hydrogen is abundant in space.

The cryogenic solution is more viable in terms of what it will cost you compared to the money you'll make but I'm not sure a 1000 years will be enough for interests to become that much interesting.

Let's assume a 1% real return ... then after 1000 years, 1 million would become literally 21 billion (and even just 10,000 dollars would become 210 million -- all adjusted for inflation).

And if you are more greedy, you can always ask them to hold off on defrosting you for 10,000 years or until some threshold kicks in. If you can't afford to have them keep you that way, you could sign a contract giving them a cut of your investment and even disperse it a little over the length of your dormition ... that would cut into the compounded returns, but then you'd just lengthen your frozen time.

[jadedeath]

So... in order to become a trillionare... we have to wait until technology that will likely take 100's of years for humanity to perfect to be invented, then invest money that may or may not be used in the future in banks which may or may not exist at the time...?

Sounds like a rock-solid plan.

Logan

[scrumptious]

Originally Posted by jadedeath

So... in order to become a trillionare... we have to wait until technology that will likely take 100's of years for humanity to perfect to be invented, then invest money that may or may not be used in the future in banks which may or may not exist at the time...?

Sounds like a rock-solid plan.

Logan

No. Cyrogenic freezing exists today. People get frozen after they die so they can be defrosted. I don't know if it's legal to do it while you're still alive though.

You will have to wait for the technology to defrost you to get developed but since you are frozen you won't care. It'd be like you went to sleep and woke up thousands of years later.

And you don't need to worry about some bank not existing in the future. If you invest in a money market fund, the fund will take care of all that. They adjust your portfolio as the times change just like they do with every client. If the money market fund is based in an institution too big to fail, you don't need to worry about the institution not being there. They already bailed out the money market funds, all of them.