1 million seconds -> 11.5 days
1 billion seconds -> 31.5 years
What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?
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#12Presenter: "With a million dollars, you can own a nice home." Presenter: "With two million dollars, you can own two nice homes." Presenter: "With three mil--" Audience: "Wait, who owns two nice homes, when so many people don't have any? Why is that even legal?" Presenter: "Please, no interruptions; I have a lot more counting to do."
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#13Presenter: "With a million dollars, you can own a nice home." Presenter: "With two million dollars, you can own two nice homes." Presenter: "With three mil--" Audience: "Wait, who owns two nice homes, when so many people don't have any? Why is that even legal?" Presenter: "Please, no interruptions; I have a lot more counting to do."
In my neighborhood a million dollars would have a nice home, and 3 rental properties, for a total of 4 homes.
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#14I find this visualization pretty useless. What I would appreciate is putting billion of dollars in terms of actual property you could buy with it, something like: - This is a house (or palace rather) that you could buy for $1B - This is an oceanic yacht of the same value - This is a shopping mall which did cost about $1B to build - This is an oil refinery that recently sold for $1B - This is how many US senators you…
as useless as you say the visualization is, so is property comparison because what does "$1B worth of real estate" even mean?
Raw materials + labor + debt financing + geographical point-in-time land value? It'd be easier to intuit these vs look at some nice pixels?
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#15I find this visualization pretty useless. What I would appreciate is putting billion of dollars in terms of actual property you could buy with it, something like: - This is a house (or palace rather) that you could buy for $1B - This is an oceanic yacht of the same value - This is a shopping mall which did cost about $1B to build - This is an oil refinery that recently sold for $1B - This is how many US senators you…
Did you actually scroll to the bottom or got bored while scrolling and scrolling and scrolling on the big black box running "top to bottom"?
The whole thing is about perspective. The big black box is just the start.
I find it much more enlightening to think about all the pixels I had to scroll past, then seeing the same thing represented by a big and then small black circle and put it in perspective with things like people working minimum wage all their lives all the way up to the Bezos and Musks of the world.
Those relative sizes feel immediately "relatable" even though they're "just numbers".
On the other hand I find your examples (no offense intended) lack that.
This is a house (or palace rather) that you could buy for $1B
This is an oceanic yacht of the same value
This is a shopping mall which did cost about $1B to build
This is an oil refinery that recently sold for $1B
This is how many US senators you can bribe, and how many favorable bills you can push through Congress /s
But then it'd really be about inflation instead of perspective.
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#16Presenter: "With a million dollars, you can own a nice home." Presenter: "With two million dollars, you can own two nice homes." Presenter: "With three mil--" Audience: "Wait, who owns two nice homes, when so many people don't have any? Why is that even legal?" Presenter: "Please, no interruptions; I have a lot more counting to do."
In my neighborhood a million dollars would have a nice home, and 3 rental properties, for a total of 4 homes.
Four houses. You have one home. The rest are just houses.
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#17This visualization is wildly inaccurate. The supposed 1000 pixels are actually 100x100 pixels, which is 10,000 not 1000. Secondly, on many screens they are not actually pixels. For example, on a macbook pro you're likely seeing 40,000 pixels in actuality.
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#18Now add the US debt!
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#19What will really make it sink in is looking at what the highest paid athlete you know of earns in a year and estimate what their earnings are while they’re just there sitting in the couch, having a meal ($25k accumulates during an average meal) or taking a crap ($2500) - they earn about $200k in their sleep, for example.
Then realize they would need to earn that much for 800 years to have as much money as Jeff Bezos.
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#20> To earn $1,000,000,000 you'd have to work more than 1,379 lifetimes!
Reminds "Something for Nothing" by Sheckley.