What industry do you think will produce humanity's first Trillionaire?

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Tux_ said:

Inspired by the Jeff Bezos thread.

Watched this video and it was pretty convincing in stating that the first trillionaire will be the person who first mines asteroids for their natural resources.



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Yeah, asteroid mining sounds like a good bet.

Sex bots.

Amazon will ship supplies to the asteroid mining people, so still Bezos

Asteroid sex bots

Embezzling.
Putin's still the richest person on Earth, right?

If Pewdewpie is still on youtube for another 30 years, probably him.

The more available the resources are the lower in price they'll go.

We'll get our first trillionaire in the next century or two from inflation alone.

Twitch

Whoever owns the company that patents the first working cold fission reactor.

Robot repair service

I've got a really good idea for a product that helps old people put on their shoes, so maybe me

US Politics

A trillion in 2018 dollars? Not sure if it will ever happen. Maybe if someone can get a monopoly on space mining like Rockefeller had on oil but even then it would be a stretch i think.

VR porn with completely realistic haptic feedback.

Man I was gunna say asteroid mining.

Ive got a really cool app idea that will take off

Space or immortality. You choose.

Hopefully none.

Bezos grandson.

The Meme Collector

moist said:

VR porn with completely realistic haptic feedback.

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They'll be able to grow a vagina first.

Politics. Orange will sell the USA to Russia.

WorryFree

Coal...duh!

Something like Slavery with Extra Steps.

Whoever is richest when inflation catches up so probably bezos, no single industry but owning all of them

Health Care Related Industries. The first person/company to "cure cancer" will be rolling in it.

(Yes I know you can't cure cancer like a traditional ailment, but if some company could effectively treat blood borne cancer they might be able to funnel that treatment into cancer cell development disruption, curing marrow cancers, etc.)

Hopefully none. I hope we never get to that point.

TAJ said:

Embezzling.
Putin's still the richest person on Earth, right?

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allegedly yes.

Water.

Whoever comes up with the first fullblown AI.

Here's a thought: the first trillionaire is already alive.

I will not bet on a specific industry. I will bet on some privately-owned conglomerate that gobbles up corporations during economic downturns. A good chance they will control some governments as well. We wouldn't even know who they were.

Dorothy Gale said:

Something like Slavery with Extra Steps.

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Someone is gonna get laid in college.

I immediately thought of Asteroid mining, so I'm glad to see I've already been beaten by the OP. Even if it cost billions of dollars to mine an asteroid, the profit would be in the trillions, so whoever ends up pioneering that would end up being stinking rich.

Money laundering, of course!

AI

Emperor of the solar system

When I was a kid I used to think healthcare in the US

Off world mining aka moon or mars. Likely 100 years away

Tux_ said:

Inspired by the Jeff Bezos thread.

Watched this video and it was pretty convincing in stating that the first trillionaire will be the person who first mines asteroids for their natural resources.



thoughts?

discuss

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If you can mine asteroids and gain such a fortune, chances are whatever you mine is becoming so common that it is practically worthless.

GaaS :p

Eventually someone will be with inflation down the line.

Im sure some drug lord is a trillionaire

Hard to say, my bet would be a specific form of automation and/or efficient labor method. Probably androids, ultra efficient robots, or high-capacity work drones. Something that would make building things unrealistic or really expensive practically danger-free (for humans) and super fast.

It would probably open the floodgates to stuff like space-elevators and orbital ship docks and then the real explosion in industry (asteroid mining, solar system travel, Mars and moon colonization) would occur.