Thinking about numerous things... The worlds population..economics..marketing..etc.

It's one thing for a man to become a millionaire. It's another thing to become a billionaire.

But..a trillionaire? Think about that. A trillion dollars is one thousand BILLION dollars. The richest man in the world is Carlos Slim Helú, with a net worth of just over 69 billion US dollars. He is only less than 1/10th the way there.

So..think about that. For one man to produce a product (not counting production cost..which is stupid to do, but lets say for the sake of easy calculation) to gain one trillion dollars..said man would have to sell his product to every single human being on the planet (7 billion) with an average cost of 145 dollars. 7 billion times 145 is roughly I trillion dollars.

How plausible is that scenario? It's mind boggling. It doesn't even make sense. Partly due to the fact that NO ONE could devise such a product that every single human being on the planet would need AND would buy with money paid for. And remember, we forgot about production/shipping/distribution/marketing cost.

Therefore, I conclude that it is impossible for one man to make 1 trillion dollars.

Thoughts?

I have a trillion dollars right now..

I'm sure it's possible, if one were to inherit and gather enough wealth through their life. Or one take all the tax money for themselves and flee immediately from the country. Or get the dollar to equal Zimbabwe money.

There's also riding out inflation for a long enough time.

1 trillion dollars is more than the US government is technically worth, so..

Germany had many trillionaires during the early 1920s in Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic

Many were trillionaires in Zimbabwe dollars during the beginning of 2000s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe

Your problem comes from thinking of money having absolute value: it doesn't. Cornelius Vanderbilt had only 100 million or so in his day, but the value of that money once indexed for today was over 100 billion.

Depends on currency, and hyperinflation helps.