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.
Josh Collinsworth@drhistorybrad A couple other comparisons I've found useful:
If you stood on top of a stack of a million $1 bills, you'd be about a football field off the ground. If you stood on a stack of a billion $1 bills, you'd be in space.
If I gave you $100,000 a year, you'd need a decade to become a millionaire. But you'd need significantly more than the length of all of recorded human history to become a billionaire.