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 7d 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/Johns-schlong 7d ago

I always like:

"The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars"

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u/vkapadia 7d ago

Yup. To a billionaire, a millionaire is a rounding error.

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u/maddtuck 6d ago

One billion bottles of beer on the wall.

One billion bottles of beer.

Take a million down, pass it around...

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Nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand bottles of beer on the wall.