Billionaires

Civics 101

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Why are there so many these days? How do they get to be billionaires? And what do they want?

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0:00.0	What was your first job that you ever had?
0:03.2	I was a counselor at the same theater summer camp that I attended as a child.
0:09.1	What did you make?
0:11.8	Probably like $6 an hour, maybe $6.50.
0:16.2	That's not good.
0:21.0	What was your first job?
0:22.4	I was a dishwasher at Hermannos Cochina Mexicana with the firm wage of $4.25 an hour.
0:29.0	All right.
0:29.7	It adds up, you know.
0:30.9	I served Stephen Tyler Nachos once.
0:33.1	Okay.
0:33.4	Well, that's your payment.
0:36.0	So I calculated how long I'd have to work at Hermanos to make a billion dollars.
0:40.6	It's really not Hermano?
0:43.2	No, but no.
0:44.4	It's in New Hampshire.
0:46.0	It's Hermannos.
0:48.1	All right.
0:48.7	How long?
0:49.7	Nonstop.
0:50.5	No sleeping.
0:52.1	30,000 years.
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