If you were profligate enough to spend a million dollars a day it would still take you 2,739 years to burn through a trillion dollars. It's that much money.

The owner of such a sum would be wealth enough to give out $140 to everyone on the planet, or – if the whim took them - buy the entirety of central London at today’s real estate prices.

As the annual Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse said last year: “Two generations ahead, future extrapolation of current wealth growth rates yields almost a billion millionaires, equivalent to 20 per cent of the total adult population.

“If this scenario unfolds, then billionaires will be commonplace, and there are likely to be a few trillionaires too, eleven according to our best estimate.”

Oh yes, everyone would be working from home ...

The only way we'll be living like millionaires here is if all the nasty dirty work we don't want to do is done half the world away, much of it by children who hardly get any schooling.

Good point.

The report author was challenged on inequality in the radio interview and said that he didn't see the gap disappearing but that it would not matter as even those on the bottom rungs would be living very comfortable lives.