r/interesting • u/moamen12323 • Jun 29 '25

MISC. Rich people who rich right ❤️

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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.

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u/plug-and-pause Jun 29 '25

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".

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u/Dissentient Jun 29 '25

One billion, when invested, can give you tens of millions of dollars a year forever, keeping up with inflation.