True: If you earned $180,000 every day from the day Jesus Christ was born, you would still not be as rich as Jeff Bezos.

By: Annie Priya
June 3 2021

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True: If you earned $180,000 every day from the day Jesus Christ was born, you would still not be as rich as Jeff Bezos.

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If you earned $180,000 a day from when Jesus was born to the present day, you would still not be as rich as Amazon's Jeff Bezos.

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If you earned $180,000 a day from when Jesus was born to the present day, you would still not be as rich as Amazon's Jeff Bezos.According to the Forbes article dated May 2, 2020, the world's richest person is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos whose net worth is estimated to be around $138.2 billion. As of March 5, 2020, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bezos' net worth is estimated to be $140 billion. There is consensus among New Testament scholars of the Biblical Archaeology Society that Jesus was born in the 4 BC or before because King Herod the Great died in the 4 BC and played a major role in the narrative of Jesus' birth, according to the gospel of Matthew 2 in the Bible. However, there is no officially established year of birth for Jesus Christ. Considering the 4 BC to be the birth year of Jesus Christ, the calculation is as follows: The number of total years to earn as much as Jeff Bezos' net worth: $138,000,000,000 ÷ 180,000 = 766,666 days (about 2,100 years) The remaining years from the current year (2020): 2100 - (4 + 2020) = 76 years. This shows that if you earned $180,000 a day since Jesus was born, you would still be 76 years shy of earning as much as Jeff Bezos' net worth in early May 2020. CORRECTION: We erroneously wrote "Jesus was born in the 4th Century BC or before" instead of "Jesus was born in 4 BC or before." The judgment and the conclusion remain the same; the math has not changed.

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