A "small" billionaire could buy a house in Hoboken for ~1/1000th of their net worth. If I bought you a gift card with 1/1000th of my net worth, you'd be like, "aw, thanks" not, "WOW THANKS AMAZING!"
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Hot take: when talking about money we should refer to them as 1,000 millions and not billions. The scale of a "billion" is just much, much larger than I think most people intuitively realize.
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This insight brought to you by the Rolling Stones song "Salt of the Earth" ("Lets drink to the two thousand million" is the line that brought this to mind).
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The visual illustration of a billion is made well here: https://virginiapolitics.org/editorials/2019/4/2/every-billionaire-is-a-policy-failure-the-visual-case …
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Yes. Times a trillion.
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