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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's closer to more money than your entire extended family will earn in the next 50-100 generations of your family combined.

Good spirit in your comment, but it demonstrates the fundamental disconnect in how humans perceive vast sums of wealth. A YouTube personality, Tom Scott, did one of the best jobs I've seen of making this concept digestible for people, worth a watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg

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