To imagine the huge difference between a billion and a million I always liked the example - a million seconds is roughly 11.7 days, a billion seconds is around 31.7 YEARS.
I prefer the “having 10,000$ is one step on the stairs” image.
Most people will never be on the first step, apart from people in industrialized countries and even then, not everyone.
A millionaire will be about 100 steps up, or about 4 floors. Ah ha! Look at you all small down there from my 4th floor vantage point!
Then a billionaire, in that same analogy, is 100,000 steps up, or 11 miles, somewhere in the fucking stratosphere. Think they can see the difference between you and the millionaire from up there?
Musk, at 680,000,000,000$? He’s passed the fucking ISS, 750 miles from the Earth, basically wealth stops having any kind of meaning or human scale.
Okay, it’s early where I am, but 1300*24(hours)*365,25(days/year)*30(years) is not a billion. It’s 341.874.000, so barely a third of the way. You need to ‘earn’ roughly 3803$ per hour to be over a billion in 30 years.
To imagine the huge difference between a billion and a million I always liked the example - a million seconds is roughly 11.7 days, a billion seconds is around 31.7 YEARS.
I prefer the “having 10,000$ is one step on the stairs” image.
Most people will never be on the first step, apart from people in industrialized countries and even then, not everyone.
A millionaire will be about 100 steps up, or about 4 floors. Ah ha! Look at you all small down there from my 4th floor vantage point!
Then a billionaire, in that same analogy, is 100,000 steps up, or 11 miles, somewhere in the fucking stratosphere. Think they can see the difference between you and the millionaire from up there?
Musk, at 680,000,000,000$? He’s passed the fucking ISS, 750 miles from the Earth, basically wealth stops having any kind of meaning or human scale.
“You need to “earn” 1300 dollar per hour from the moment of birth to almost be a billionaire at 30 years old” - another way to perceive it.
You need to “earn” 317.10 dollar per second ($1.14 million per hour) around the clock to become a trillionaire at 100 years old.
Okay, it’s early where I am, but 1300*24(hours)*365,25(days/year)*30(years) is not a billion. It’s 341.874.000, so barely a third of the way. You need to ‘earn’ roughly 3803$ per hour to be over a billion in 30 years.
Yeah, that’s a good one.