When 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.
I was surprised to find that my dad, who used trigonometry daily in his trade, had just assumed that a billion was ten million. Mostly because he thought it would be ridiculous to have billionaires if it really was a thousand million.
At the end of that two day conversation, he reversed his approval of Thatcher and even the Conservative Party, and voted Labour at the next election.