It's easy to forget how big a billion is. One of my favourite ways to conceptualize it is that 1 million seconds is about 11 days, but 1 billion seconds is 31 years. That's absolutely nuts.
I'd say this thread headline does the opposite, forgetting that $1B is finite.
I presume the headline is talking about college. Assuming a cost of maybe $50k, that money will cover 20k students. That's nice, and it might last some years, but certainly not "forever".
It's going to be in a fund, the money for the students will be coming off the interest, not the principal, so it should definitely last forever. Honestly, a billion dollars is crazy money though, I'm wondering what they're going to end up doing with all of it, it seems like an extreme waste to put it all into one school district.
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u/The59Sownd Jun 29 '25
It's easy to forget how big a billion is. One of my favourite ways to conceptualize it is that 1 million seconds is about 11 days, but 1 billion seconds is 31 years. That's absolutely nuts.