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Originally Posted by troutman
It is sometimes hard for us to comprehend the difference in scale between million and billion and trillion.
A million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is 31 years and a trillion seconds is 31709 years.
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I like to use this example to show why it’s ridiculous that anyone can hoard so much wealth that they have a Billion dollars (or billions)
Let’s say you made cash after tax every day for 100 years. During those 100 years you made 20,000 dollars a day 365 days a year.
20k x 365 days x 100 years = $730 million.
The point is even if you made that ridiculous sum after tax every single day for a hundred years, which we can probably all agree is more money than anyone person would ever need in their lifetime you still would not be a billionaire... maybe this should be in the random thought thread but trout your point made me want to bring it up.