I don't think a lot of people quite realise just how much money a billion is. Here's a couple of examples I saw, if it helpsOriginally Posted by Croesy Blue
-If you earned $45,000 a year and stashed it all under your mattress, you’d have one million dollars at the end of 22 years. To accumulate one billion dollars at that same rate, it would take 22,000 years
-One million seconds from now is about 11 and a half days away. One billion seconds from now is about 31 and a half years in the future
Like you said, there is absolutely zero chance that Gareth Bale is anywhere near being a billionaire, and the fact that people like lisvaneblue think that he is one explains a little ordinary working people seem so defensive of the insanely super rich when it comes to the statement that no one needs a billion pounds.
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