Sextillionaire

He’s the Credit Mobilier; the Credit Foncier; the prospective sextillionaire; the next President of the United States; the embodiment of Internationale; a huge Syndicate; a blase traveler, who has seen this little world, and who aspires to a jaunt over Saturn and adjacent planets.

They supply the field for ambition and for amusement to a large majority of people, for it is a fact which we are apt to forget that the American nation is not a handful of politicians or journalists, nor yet the baker’s dozen of sextillionaires, nor even the women young men in the large cities who lead the fashion, but the innumerable small farmers, the mechanics and the gentry of small inland towns.

My husband pointed her out to me first as the daughter of the great Baltimore sextillionaire.

I am the only sextillionaire in Eternity.

The editor of the New York Independent on receipt of such a chain letter written in behalf of an injured railroad man turned it over to an expert accountant, who discovered that if every other branch of the letter had gone as far as that received by the editor, the employe in question would be a “sextillionaire,” possessing more wealth by far than the total estimated wealth of the globe.

One of the patients, in the early stages of paresis, addressed the assemblage, and in the time allotted to him he was unable to portray fully his conception of his wealth and his own personal puissance, so great were his grandiose ideas. He had become a billionaire, a trillionaire, a sextillionaire; he had thousands of wives, millions of children, and in an ordinary day through the work of a million men, each with a million hands, he had constructed a concrete bridge across the Atlantic.

As a sextillionaire, it would soon be absolutely impossible for you to experience anticipation or longing for anything with a price tag. Price could literally never be an object.

Democratically set bounds on wealth, that is to say, a maximum allowable wealth limit and a guaranteed income, both democratically set, will be established inasmuch as not doing so would lead to an absurdity. For without those bounds, just as we once had millionaires and hungry people, and we now have billionaires and hungry people, so we would eventually have (if mankind survived) trillionaires and hungry people, quadrillionaires and hungry people, quintillionaires and hungry people, sextillionaires and hungry people, septillionaires and hungry people, octillionaires and hungry people, nonillionaires and hungry people, ad infinitum and ad nauseam.