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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except the difference between billionaire and millionaire is considerably more vast than that, and humans are quite poor at understanding that intuitively.

One million seconds is about 11.6 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 years.

It's an issue when people think of that leap of million to billion as you have, as it greatly discounts how much these leeches have sucked out of working people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I guess I didn't emphasize the end of my post enough, I completely agree.

The difference in lifestyle of someone with a net worth of $1000 or $1m could just be that one of them owns their own house and the other rents. Someone with $1b has absolutely nothing in common with either of the other two, they could probably spend 90% of their life savings and not have a noticeable change in their lifestyle. The guy with a million is still going to think about a couple thousand dollar purchase, and the guy with a thousand doesn't really have a choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ah, yes, I misunderstood that very last statement saying the difference is [actually] about $1b. Apologies.