ObviouslyNotBanana comments on This is how we should be selling redistribution

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is roughly 1 billion.

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 8 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

~~No. It’s a thousand. Which is closer to zero than a billion.~~

Edit: You’re talking absolute values so the difference is 999 million.

While I was talking ratios hence the ratio being 1:1000. My bad.

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's the best way I've found to illustrate to regular people how fucking massive the wealth accumulation is.

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[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If you count 1 number per second it takes TWO WEEKS to count to a million.

However, it would take 33 YEARS to count to 1 billion.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

lol. I think your post shows just how hard it is to fathom a billion better than any numbers could.

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