@gruff So if you "earn" 1 billion of a currency in 31 years, that means you "earn" one whatever every second and one million every 11 and a half days.

Nobody cannot agree that that's way too much.

@gruff What's the difference between 11.5 days and 31 years?

A: About 31 years.

@gruff
You really got my deepest compassion.
This is because of the metric system.
It's always hard to compute the imperial units to ROTW units.
ROTW knows that a Billion is a Billion.
We don't need to trans-compute to seconds. At least your example (which was new to me) shows some linearity.

Thanks for letting us know🙏🫡

@gruff

When I'm telling people that there should be no such thing as a billionaire, I frame it in terms of normal-people's purchasing power.

Oh, so you won the billion dollar Powerball lottery? Great! Now you can buy one hundred $10 million mansions. That's approximately one mansion every three days for the next year.

$100,000 luxury vacation week to Paris on a chartered jet? You could afford 10,000 of those, so every week for the next 200 years.

And so on, with cars, food, art, luxury items, travel — any normal human thing.

It is simply not possible for a normal human being, even in a wealthy industrialized country, to spend $1 billion on personal needs, never mind $1 billion per year, never mind many, many billions of dollars per year. If you can't spend it, you also can't "earn it".

Billionaires exist by theft. The sole purpose of that much money is power and social control. Billionaires are not compatible with a democratic society.