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Comment by cess11 | Hacker News Reader

It's like twelve life incomes in the US.

    > 20000000 / (40 * 40000)
    12.5

An obscene amount of wealth.

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> twelve life incomes in the US

Or 2 trips to the hospital

Rich people usually have good insurance though.

Insurance always takes more than it gives.

The key thing is that insurance also gets monopsony power over what they pay providers, so they can pay less than the provider would nominally charge.

In the aggregate.

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