What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?
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What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?
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#2A cube of 100 dollar bills four feet on a side is about 160M dollars. So, six of them.
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#3$1 billion dollars looks like $20-$35 million dollars a year of indefinite spending, inflation adjusting, depending on the exact form of the billion dollars and the tax rates involved.
So, spending 100% of the after tax income of like 75 (well paid!) staff engineers at a big tech company in CA, but without having any job.
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#4A cube of 100 dollar bills four feet on a side is about 160M dollars. So, six of them.
Actually, a billion dollars look like a ten digit number at the bottom of a spreadsheet.
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#5When I try to zoom in (by pinching the touchpad) on one of the charts at the bottom of the site, Firefox crashes. I guess there are too many pixels in the black bar :)
MacBook M1 Pro, 32GB RAM, Firefox 141.0
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#6A cube of 100 dollar bills four feet on a side is about 160M dollars. So, six of them.
Surprisingly portable. I can see why the Treasury doesn't want to print larger denomination bills
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#8I 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 can bribe, and how many favorable bills you can push through Congress /s
etc.
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#9I 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…
There’s a xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/980/
It’s a little old so inflation is a factor, but still really good intuition
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#10Presenter: "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."