A billion dollars is, to state the obvious, a lot of money. If Jeff Bezos were to fill a sack with $5,000 every day—365 days a year—and hand it over to you, he would only exhaust one billion dollars after 548 years (and still have $203 billion left).
To put that into perspective, 548 years ago was 1476, quite some time before Columbus landed in America.
Billionaires and the Power of Verticality
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/billionaires-and-the-power-of-verticality