Well, our brain obviously can’t understand 1 million individual items independently at once, that’s not how we’re wired. But we do understand what 1000 times more means conceptually.
I do understand what I can buy with 1000 dollars. We don’t need to see every dollar as a individual entity in our minds to understand 1000 dollars.
It’s easier to visualize this way : you have 100 dollars in your pocket. There is 10 cents on the pavement. Do you care about those ten cents? Probably not. They are just a rounding error.
I prefer “what’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars? About a billion dollars.”
10^9 - 10^6 = 10^9
Honestly, is “a thousand times more” too much for people to process?
Seems pretty straight forward.
In some countries “billion” menas a million millions, that one would make more sense to me.
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Well, our brain obviously can’t understand 1 million individual items independently at once, that’s not how we’re wired. But we do understand what 1000 times more means conceptually.
I do understand what I can buy with 1000 dollars. We don’t need to see every dollar as a individual entity in our minds to understand 1000 dollars.
It’s easier to visualize this way : you have 100 dollars in your pocket. There is 10 cents on the pavement. Do you care about those ten cents? Probably not. They are just a rounding error.