r/AskReddit • u/Previous-Ad3911 • 7d ago

You can have 5000 of anything that starts with Y. What do you choose?

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u/vkapadia 6d ago

Scale is a hell of a thing.

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.

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u/NSA_Chatbot 6d ago

Another way to see the huge difference between $1m and $1b:

If you take a meterstick and put $0 on one end, and a Billion on the other end, a million dollars is at 1mm.

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u/yotreeman 6d ago

This tells me nothing. Try football fields

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u/NSA_Chatbot 6d ago

Rhode Island is a million football fields.

America is 1.8 billion football fields.

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u/Autumn1eaves 6d ago

That still doesn’t help.

A football field is 360 feet.

If a football field is a billion, then a million is 5 inches long.