• @audaxdreik@pawb.social
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    33 hours ago

    I was thinking about this the other day, one of my favorite analogies is seconds.

    A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is … 31,688 years.

    The analogy already breaks down, because while most people could understand 12 days and a lot of adults can understand 31 years for having lived it (some even twice or more!), 31,688 years is completely incomprehensible again. How many human generations is that? All of recorded human history is only like 5,000 years. It’s utterly, mind-numbingly insane. No trillionaires, ever! No billionaires!!!

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/business/elon-musk-richest-person-trillionaire/index.html

    This was published on September 17th of this year, after most of the nonsense of Twitter and utter things. He’s still on track, by 2027 no less. There’s no telling how directly and flagrantly he’ll benefit from a Trump win, either.

    • @spongebue@lemmy.world
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      33 hours ago

      My favorite is “do you know the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire? About a billion dollars”

      Like, being a millionaire is a pretty sweet spot to be in if you’re lucky enough. Not quite like a millionaire of decades ago but still good. But if you’re a billionaire, a million dollars is basically a rounding error.