Dr. Bradley J. SommerWhen we talk about how billionaires shouldn’t exist I don’t think people really understand the massive difference in scale between a million and a billion. One million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. It’s an unfathomable amount of money that no one should have. Even uber-rich mega millionaires - hundreds of millions - really shouldn’t exist. We need to tax the rich; they’re the real free loaders. They’re the drains on the economy. They’re the ones dragging society down.
Mike Taylor 🦕@drhistorybrad I have often wondered how much damage has been done by the words "million" and "billion" sounding the same. No-one even confuses (say) a 10 thousand pound purchase with a 10 million pound one. But we easily confuse 10 million with 10 billion.
Nina Kalinina@mike @drhistorybrad hm, would "mega"/"giga" help? Because every kid knows the difference between 10 megabytes and 10 gigabytes nowadays
@nina_kali_nina @drhistorybrad It would have been better, wouldn't it? But even then I had to admit (to my shame, having grown up with the 5 Kb of a VIC-20) I sometimes slip in my mind between Mb and Gb.