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Buzz Feed
03-07-2025
- Business
- Buzz Feed
17 Things You Can Buy For $1 Billion In The US
It's so hard to conceptualize how much $1 billion actually is. For example, Elon Musk is so rich that spending $1 billion to him is equivalent to the average American spending only $300. That's like me buying a year's worth of Premium Netflix, meanwhile Elon could buy a year's worth for all 3.2 million people in Puerto Rico. And he'd still have money left over! You can check out the net worth of every single billionaire here. As of just a few months ago, there were 902 reported billionaires in the US alone. However, 34% of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. So, as Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" becomes one step closer to being passed into law – in which the rich will receive massive tax cuts, yet nearly 17 million people will lose their health insurance altogether — I wanted to break down exactly what you could buy with $1 billion. Throughout the US, the average person spends $1,635 per month on rent. If you had $1 billion dollars, that would cover your rent for the next 50,968 years. Oh, wait, you wanna live in New York City instead? Well, the average rent there is $4,019 per month. Your $1 billion would still last you an impressive 20,734 years though, assuming you haven't run into greedy landlords. Your $1 billion could also buy every single person in Japan, Germany, France, Sweden, Palestine, Ghana, Spain, Poland, Australia, South Africa, and Brazil a burrito from Taco Bell. And you'd still have another 5.3 million burritos left over! Not too shabby, considering you started with over 671 million burritos. Heck, maybe you want to end poverty in general! You could totally wipe it out statewide in Alaska, Vermont, and you'd still have about $120 million to spare. Perhaps you're a sucker for all things fashion. With $1 billion, you could buy 78,740 Birkin bags. That's enough to give two bags to every single person who lives in Monaco. To be more specific, these would be the Birkin 25 in Togo leather (not pictured), which cost $12,700 each. Or maybe running is more your speed. Nike's Streakfly 2 running shoes retail for $190, but with your $1 billion you could buy 5,263,157 pairs. That's nearly enough to give every single resident of Ireland or New Zealand their own pair of shoes. Jeff Bezos just spent an estimated $50 million on his star-studded wedding in Italy. That may seem like a lot (because it is!), but to him, it's the equivalent of spending only $41.23 in comparison to the median American. After all, his total net worth $233.9 billion. If you had just $1 billion and wanted to recreate his wedding extravaganza – which included performances from Usher, among others – you could do so every single week for the next 5 months. Maybe music is your passion, and you want a private concert from Beyoncé. Two years ago, she was paid $24 million to put on a private show in Dubai, which is the most expensive private performance ever recorded. You could spend $1 billion on 41 private Beyoncé concerts and still have $16,000 left over. Or perhaps Bruno Mars is more your style. You could get 312 private concerts from him instead, which would equal one concert every month for the next 26 years. After all, Bruno's rate is about $3.2 million per private show. Are you into cars? You could buy the new Porsche 718 Boxster with your $1 billion. And then you could buy a bunch more to hand out to your closest 13,350 friends. Perhaps you live in Vatican City and want to give them to every other resident of the country. That means each person would receive 15 entire Porches. I hope they have enough space in their garage. Maybe you were disappointed in how the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones ended. Each of those episodes cost $15 million to make, so you could redo all six of them annnnnyyyyy way you'd like 11 times and still have some change left over. And maybe then you'll actually be able to get it right! The average hospital bill for delivering a baby in the US (without complications) is $19,000. With your $1 billion, you could front the bill for 52,631 new kids. That's only three thousand people less than the entire population of Greenland. Lord knows we need as many Mamma Mia! movies as possible. The first one had a budget of $52 million, so you could spend your $1 billion to create 19 new films and still have $12 million left over for Meryl Streep's signing bonus. The average in-state college student spends $9,750 per year on tuition at a public university. Your $1 billion could pay off all four years of school for well over 25,000 students. Let's say you wanted to give away all of your money to charity at the rate of $1 per second. It'll take you just over 16 minutes to give away $1,000. If you kept going, it'll take you just over 11.5 days to give away $1 million. But, hey, you're a billionaire, so it'll take you over 31.7 years to give away all $1 billion. Let's say you're feeling generous and want to order breakfast, lunch, and dinner from the McDonald's Dollar Menu for every single person who lives in Rhode Island. You'd be able to feed everyone (over 1 million people!) for the next 299 days. Finally, the average yearly salary in the US is projected to be about $68,000 this year. Elon Musk makes that much money every 2 minutes and 59 seconds. If the average salary never changed, you'd have to work for the next 14,705 years to earn $1 billion. If Elon wanted another billion dollars, he'd simply have to work 30 days, 9 hours, 54 minutes, and 49 seconds. By that point, the average US citizen would have only made $5,667. Billionaires shouldn't exist!!!!! Bye!!!!!
New York Post
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Ritzy, celeb-fave restaurant sells a $33K cocktail — and it comes with a Birkin bag
It's top-shelf and top-of-the-line. An exclusive restaurant in Miami sent many into a spiral after revealing a cocktail that comes with a $33,000 price tag — and a Birkin bag. Content creator Mister Lewis asked a server what the most expensive drink on the menu was at Papi Steak in Miami Beach. 4 A cocktail at Papi Steak in Miami costs $33,000 and comes with a Birkin bag. Instagram/papisteak The drink, called 'It's Not a Bag, It's a Cocktail,' features a cocktail consisting of Belvedere 10 Vodka, grapefruit oil saccharum, and Lillet Blanc with a peach garnish and side of caviar — served inside a Birkin bag. However, the ritzy drink doesn't have to come with the Birkin. The cocktail alone costs $150 — pennies compared to the $33,000 charge with the classy clutch. The video quickly went viral, with many noting that this hefty drink might be 'somehow the easiest way to get a Birkin.' A Birkin bag, which is considered the 'one of the most coveted objects of recent decades,' is notoriously hard to get — and due to its exclusivity, people tend to spend thousands on thousands of dollars on other Hermès products before they can even think about getting a Birkin. That's because while technically anyone can ask a sales associate about the elite bag, Hermès reserves it for a limited amount of select customers, typically those who have a repeat purchase history with the brand. 'Does Hermès know they are offering Birkins with cocktails now? So much for exclusive and elevated,' another commenter quipped. 4 The cocktail is served in a Birkin bag. Instagram/papisteak Another claimed that ordering the drink to get the Birkin 'is actually smart, he probably got a Birkin for cheaper and is making profit of it.' While Hermès doesn't list the retail prices of Birkin bags, according to Sotheby's, the smallest one, the Birkin 25, costs $12,100 for a Togo leather bag at brand boutiques in the United States, while the Birkin 30 in Togo leather costs $13,300. However, secondary market prices tend to range between $28,000 and $30,000 for one bag, though it depends on the model and material — and some can exceed $100,000. 4 'It's Not a Bag, It's a Cocktail' consists of Belvedere 10 Vodka, grapefruit oil saccharum, and Lillet Blanc with a peach garnish and side of caviar. Instagram/papisteak Meanwhile, some commenters on Lewis' video are skeptical that the Birkin bag given at the restaurant — a venue beloved by celebrities such as Ivanka and Tiffany Trump, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sofia Vergara and Hailey Bieber — is even real. 'Anyone else think the bag they're serving it in is the fake one, and the real one is in the box? Why would they fill a real f–king Birkin with drinks? Lol,' one questioned. 4 Tiffany Trump celebrated her 27th birthday at Miami's Papi Steak in 2020. Instagram/davideinhorn 'Bag made in China for about 80 dollars,' another claimed. 'The Birkin is fake … this bag on the video doesn't have the Hermès logo … look up pics before you guys all go crazy,' someone alleged. 'That's not even a Birkin, it's a dupe. No logo or anything on the bag,' another eagle-eyed user pointed out. But as one user smartly summed it up, patrons are getting a '$10 drink [and a] $32,990 bag.'
