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   woodpunk (woodpunk@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 13:50:09 JST woodpunk

   I think a lot of people don't get what "billionaire" really means. Chatting to a neighbour yesterday, they mentioned that the owner of their company is a "millionaire or billionaire or something..."

   When I said that those are two very different things, they just looked at me quizzically.

   They got the difference when I put it like this:

   £1 Million stacked in £20 notes is as high as your house.

   £1 Billion stacked in £20 notes is almost 4 miles high.

   That one letter makes all the difference.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 12:36:05 JST iced depresso

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     @woodpunk billionaire means a couple million in liquid capital and a mountain of paper people claim has value (stocks.)