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As a fun thought experiment -- to get £1bn someone would have to give you £1 per second EVERY SECOND for 32 years.
No one needs that much money. And anyone who says they do, or anyone who defends someone who does, really needs to adjust their point of view.
Alright, no offense, but that has to be the least useful visualization of a billion I've ever come across. I already have to do the math every time I want to calculate how many minutes there are in a day and you want to use the number of seconds in 32 years as a reference?
"If you put it all in one dollar bills it would weigh ten tons". There. Fixed. You immediately picture it now.
In pound coins it'd be 8750 tons, which is not quite as intuitive, but it's a lot heavier, so it still has an impact, I suppose. That's about as heavy as a small battleship, if that helps.
I think the seconds analogy hits harder. Especially comparing 1 million to 1 billion (11.6 days vs. 32 years).
Your 10 tons doesn't do much for me. A few F250s? A dump truck or two? Maybe do the comparison to a million idk.
But your comment came off pretty arrogant and condescending ("There. Fixed it. You immediately picture it now." Not really man.)
Regardless the way people picture and grasp large numbers is certainly Subjective. The seconds analogy hits harder for me.
I always think the difference between a million and a billion the same as a decent vacation and a literal generation.