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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

millions = lifetime human income

billions = massive company (top 5,000)

trillions = large government (top 20)

  • Read "gov spends millions" as "they employed 3 to 30 people"
  • Read "company is fined 1 million" as "the had to hire 2 lawyers instead of 1"
  • Read "company is fined 100 million" as "paying ~100 employees for ~10 years"
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a theory about this: We group money in magnitudes of tens up to a million but then jump up from 10x to 1,000x:

1

10

100

1,000

10,000

100,000

1,000,000

1,000,000,000

That’s a huge increase but our minds like patterns so we instinctively feel that a billion must be about 10x a million and not the 1,000x it really is, thus leading to huge inaccuracies.