Andrew Santino just blew my mind with one simple comparison.
A million seconds = 11 days.
A billion seconds = 31 years.
Let that sink in.
We throw around “billionaire” like it’s just “millionaire but with more zeros,” but the actual gap is insane. A million seconds is less than two weeks. A billion seconds is longer than most people’s entire adult lives.
It’s a perfect reminder of how detached our brains are from what these numbers actually mean.
Next time someone casually says “he’s a billionaire,” just remember: that’s not “a lot of millions.” That’s an entirely different universe of scale.
Mind officially blown.
The single worst thing about Trump to me will always be how much he's changed people. I've watched friends and relatives become entirely new, worse people in the wake of his political rise. Like it's not merely that he's a terrible guy, it's that he's ruined people.