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[–] 115 points 4 months ago (14 children)

When cars came along? How old is he?

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  • [–] 62 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    He also thinks there are one billion people on earth total. So between that and the invention of cars being in his memory, I think we can place him solidly in the mid 1800’s?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I just took that statement to be a mask off moment where he reveals just how little he thinks of most humans. He can't really be stupid enough to think there are only one billion humans on the planet?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    Was this in the article or is this something he said elsewhere?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    It was tucked into a recent speech. I watched a timestamped link. He really said it and it really sounded like he meant the sum of all people.

    Defenders say that he was implicitly referring to people who are “computer users” or would be engaging with his company’s products or whatever. If true, I don’t know if that’s better lol

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Huang was born and spent early childhood in the city of Taipei. In 1968, by the time he was five years old, there were 17,000 cars and 75,000 motorcycles† in the city with population of 13,801,200‡, with one car per 812 people.


    Sources:
    † Taipei MRT celebrates its 30th birthday | EuroView, 2026
    ‡ Population records increases in Taiwan | CountryEconomy

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