Limited Time Only
Lifespan ~ 80 years*52 weeks/year ~ 4k weeks
If you are 40: 2k weeks to go.
If you are 70: another 500–700 weeks.
Interpolate for rest.
Well-read
If you read a book a week for 50 years, you will read ~ 2500 books.
Approximately 130M books have been published.
Wage
India’s PPP adjusted median per capita income was $1,497/yr in 2013. So ~ 550M people < $1500/yr.
- Since it is PPP wage, think about living on $1500/year in the US
- Another way to think about it:
Wage of median American working for a year ($26,964) > wage of 18 Indians working for a year - Yet another way to think about it:
Avg. career ~ 35 years (30–65)
What median American will earn in 2 yrs = lifetime earning of an Indian earning median income - Yet another way to think about it:
median CEO/median worker wage ~ 4x
median US Worker/median Indian worker ~ 18x - Yet another way to think about it:
From a company’s perspective, median American has to be more than 45x productive (where shipping 0, as in lots of digital products) than median Indian or outsourcing or automation makes more sense.