This is a video of Youtuber Tom Scott comparing a million dollars to a billion dollars using two-dimensional distance instead of three-dimensional volume. Specifically, how far you’d need to travel to represent a million dollars in single $1 bills resting on their sides in one long stack, each bill being only 0.1093mm thick, then doing the same for a billion dollars. The million is about the length of a football field and takes Scott about a minute to walk. A billion? A billion takes him over an hour of driving, most of it on highways. All the money I’ll make in my lifetime? Probably not even the length of an average boner, and certainly not mine.

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