How rich are we?

[Chainsaw_Plankton]

@Bjorn_Tyrson

Afaik the 1 isk being enough for a family has since been reconned although no solid number has ever been placed on it.

Personally I think that 1 isk being ~1 hr of unskilled labor works out rather well. It makes capsuleers unimaginably wealthy. But not so unreasonable that it’s unbelievable.

If we use that scale. Let’s say 1 isk = ~10 usd. Then say a shuttle at 20000 isk would be around 200k dollars… that’s the price of a damn nice car. Or a small plane… something out of reach for your average broom pusher. But not unreasonable for a middle manager… meanwhile we throw them away like trash.

Our frigates meanwhile would be in the comparable price range of private jets and luxury yachts. Small companies may have them. And even the richest of individuals may have one or two for showing off… And it only goes up from there.

I find using that scale works well for me at least.

That sounds right enough, but I’d go at least several orders of magnitude more. there are trillions of people in the eve cluster, then what maybe a million pod pilots, with only what a few 100k active at any one time.

we’re at least the 1% of the 1% of the 1%. that’s a very small fraction, I’d guess a shuttle is worth high millions if not billions of USD, and then it only goes up from there.