The amount of any payments — an idea that Trump said was still under consideration — would depend on figures from DOGE, which has had some of its savings claims debunked.
I’ve done it a bunch of times myself… working with millions and billions of something is kind of in another realm that is difficult for us to conceptualize… trillions and quadrillions even more so…
Like when you look at the graphs that show what a billion dollars really is… a millionaire is closer to the wealth of a vagrant bum than he is to a billionaire to a very large degree….
If he gave everyone a million that would be like 400 million million… he’s not quite that rich
In other words,
400 billions… he is worth more than thatedit: I messed it up
400 trillion
A million million is an order of magnitude more than that.
1,000,000 x 1,000,000 =1,000,000,000,000
(1,000,000,000) is a billion for comparison)
The number x 400 would be like 400 trillion which I think is more than the gdp of the entire world.
Yeap, I messed it up
I’ve done it a bunch of times myself… working with millions and billions of something is kind of in another realm that is difficult for us to conceptualize… trillions and quadrillions even more so…
Like when you look at the graphs that show what a billion dollars really is… a millionaire is closer to the wealth of a vagrant bum than he is to a billionaire to a very large degree….
The crux of my mistake was that American english calls 1 thousand millions a billion
Pretty much every other language reserves that word for a million millions
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04440/
billion is a thousand millions, not a million millions