> It's hard to imagine for regular people just how far a billion dollars is I heard it put this way once before and it really stuck with me: the difference bet

> It's hard to imagine for regular people just how far a billion dollars is I heard it put this way once before and it really stuck with me: the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is a billion dollars. If that doesn't make sense, consider how that is proportionally the same as saying: the difference between one dollar and a thousand dollars is a thousand dollars. One dollar is literally nothing next to a thousand dollars. If you bought something for $1k and you were overcharged $1, lots of people wouldn't even notice. Of course, someone greedy enough to be a billionaire would probably notice though :P