Isaac 'Atridas' Serrano Guasch
ErkhyanToday in “a shitpost gave me perspective”:
The difference between one million and one billion is roughly one billion.
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Zach Leatherman@erkhyan seems like people can understand 1K -> 1M better than 1M -> 1B
gizmomathboy, FC@zachleat @erkhyan couple similar analogies can start with:
A billion is to a million like 10 dollars to a penny, or a thousand dollars to one dollar.
Much easier for us but millionaires or billionaires to get our heads around and to communicate the the mind boggling number that a billion dollars is for one person to have.
And as always, billionaires shouldn't exist
Russell Phillips@gizmomathboy @zachleat @erkhyan I like a time-based one:
A million seconds is about 12 days.
A billion seconds is over 30 years.
Alsy@rpbook @gizmomathboy @zachleat @erkhyan This one really throws me off because it’s so much more conceivable than a nice round 1000.
@Alsy @gizmomathboy @zachleat @erkhyan I find it emphasises the difference much better, which is why I like it.
Jojo 
Clifton RoystonI like this framing.
I'm also a little curious because I recently made a shitpost alluding to that. My "possible solution to the billionaire problem" suggested giving them a nice trophy for winning at capitalism and then confiscating 99.9% of their money (which would, yes, leave them with 1 million.)
Was that the one where you found that perspective? I'm very pleased if so.
Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻@erkhyan I like this. I would add a small disclaimer at the end: "The difference between a billion and a million is a billion, ±0.1%"
kabel42
King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi@erkhyan The difference in scale between a million and a billion is the same as between a thousand and a million and as one and a thousand.
Think about how much more than a dollar that a thousand dollars is.
It's a lot more, right?
Now a thousand dollars vs. a million. Same scale. A million is so much more than a thousand it's hard to compare, but now think of that million compared to one dollar.
A billion has the same scale difference to a thousand as a million has to one dollar.
Robin Adams@erkhyan "Go back a million minutes, you're in 2024. Go back a billion minutes, you're in the Roman Empire." - Zack Polanski
Clinton Anderson SwordForHireA million seconds is only 11.6 days.
A billion seconds is 31.7 years.
A trillion seconds is 31709 years.
Michael Wyman@erkhyan the more I think on the phrase “a shitpost gave me perspective” the more I want it set to the 80’s song “last night a d.j. saved my life” (https://youtu.be/GtfZbj4J71A?si=DjKH9HRd93mIsHLo)
