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millions = lifetime human income
billions = massive company (top 5,000)
trillions = large government (top 20)
And in "long scale", a billion is 31 710 years.
It's 1000 times bigger, woah
As a computer guy, just say, what's bigger? A gigabyte or a terabyte? That's the difference between a million and a billion.
For clarity, the scale in difference is the same between a terabyte and a gigabyte as compared to a billion and a million (a factor of 1000). But a gigabyte is not a million bytes and a terabyte is not a billion bytes Kilo = thousand Mega = million Giga = billion Tera = trillion
Gigabyte is a billion bytes, terabyte is a trillion bytes. But yes, relatively speaking, you're correct.
I think people can't really comprehend this because a long time ago a million was a lot of money. Like, if you had a million in your bank account you were a rich person. Nowadays that means you are just an average person with a little extra money. Heck, in places like San Francisco having a million means you are just scraping by.
It's 3 more zeroes. It's nothing.
As a retort, why do we need to know this?
innumeracy. "Why would it help to have an intuitive understanding of large quantities? You think it would help grasp situations where they're used or something?"