If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 million years to earn a trillion dollars.

If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.

Tax the rich.

@petergleick That's some nice explanatory math of big numbers and how they can be applied. I think that's one I might give to my students to play with. I won't make the judgement about taxes though...gotta stay neutral you know.