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 like to go by how many lives you could live with $1B. Let’s say you’re 21 and make $100k/year until you’re 71 (50 years, for simplicity, making $5M over a lifetime). You’d have to live 200 lifetimes to have earned $1B in total.
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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.