Let’s say it takes 30 minutes to read 8000 words, and lets assume that people only read a third of that (10 minutes). Based on my (under-representing) GoatCounter stats, 6000 people viewed my latest post.
That calculates to people having spent a collective time of over 40 days reading that post.
Lots of vague figures and assumptions here, but still crazy to think about that amount of human life being spent reading my screed.