Yet another meme about “billionaire math” claims that a person earning $240,000 annually and spending nothing at all would still not amass a billion dollars for 4,167 years.
Among popular tweets debating whether billionaires ought to exist was another example of how vastly different a billion was from a million.
A tweet about Christopher Columbus, Jeff Bezos, and billionaires in general has been racing around social media, so we checked the math.
The difference between millionaires and billionaires may be poorly understood, but time-based analogies have inherent flaws, for a very good reason.
