Another way to see the huge difference between $1m and $1b:
Let's say you made $1/second (which is an insanely good salary, $3600/hr), and you earned this not just business hours, but 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Earning $1m would take you less than 12 days. Earning $1b would take you over 31 years.
The average giraffe is about 4.44 meters long. Expressed in millimeters, a half giraffe as a unit of measurement would be 2,220 millimeters. So I guess a half giraffe is like... 2.22 meters or 2.22 billionaires. So a millionaire is 1/2220 half giraffes.
A million cats would probably be enough to take over your neighborhood. A billion cats would be enough to form a furry, meowing carpet that could blanket an entire small country.
I like this example. And OP said 5000 years worth of income. $100K is above average. 5000 years of above average income only takes you halfway up the meterstick. And the top 10 billionaires in the world are all worth over $100B, which means that their worth is over 100 m high, or roughly a 30 story building.
5000 years of above average wealth, measured in Millions of dollars per mm, only takes you to about the height of your knees, while the world's richest individuals are looking down at you from the tops of 30 story buildings.
Imagine something one inch in size which costs sixteen thousand dollars. Holy crap that's expensive! That's in ultra-custom-jewelry territory! In some jobs that's an annual salary!
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u/ismelldirti 5d ago
Years worth of income