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[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

One million seconds is 11.5 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

Or with monetary comparisons, there's only a handfuld of countries on this planet with higher GPD than his net worth. Or, if that was somehow some kind of value instead of made-up numbers, Elon alone would contribute to the world about as much as half of Canada or everyone in Taiwan.

Obviously that doesn't quite work like that, but maybe one person should not have more financial leverage than majority of whole countries on the planet.