Canadian MP Bob Zimmer on a rugby pitch in 2024
Original visualised
True scale of a billion and trillion dollars compared
US debt of $30 trillion visualized: stacked in $100 bills (2021)
If you’d spent a million dollars every single day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn’t have spent a trillion dollars.
The maths:
2,025 years × 365.25 days/year = 739,706 days (approximately)
739,706 days × $1,000,000/day = $739,706,000,000
A trillion $1 bills, laid end to end, would stretch 156 million kilometres (96,933,906 miles) – a bit further (6.4 million km) than the distance from Earth to the Sun.
Finally
Here’s a tiny snippet of it:
Oh and one more little chart
