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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I totally understand that a million, billion or trillion of anything is hard to grasp when your reference is one or two. 1 to 1,000 is about all we can handle, so you have to mentally rebase each step up.

  • $1 to $1,000 ($1k)
  • $1k to $1,000k ($1M)
  • $1M to $1,000M ($1B)
  • $1B to $1,000B ($1T)

At each stage the thousand dwarves the one by the same degree. So if you can fathom the first one you can fathom the last one. You may not get their absolute size, but relative sizes should be appreciable.

The fact that most of us struggle to get to $1M of assets over a lifetime, and he's at a million times more. 🤮. It's vertigo inducing.