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A game to help understand just how much money is a Billion dollars

Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:07 am
Posted by Shexter
Prairieville
Member since Feb 2014
20032 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:07 am
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It’s crazy how difficult it is to even imagine the scale of billionaire wealth. I was using spendelonmusk.money, a web app that lets you see what spending Elon Musk’s fortune might look like, and even after buying absurd things, the balance barely moves. It’s less about shopping and more about realizing how far removed that amount of money is from everyday life. If you had access to that kind of wealth, would you try to spend it all or invest most of it?


https://www.spendelonmusk.money/





Posted by Celery
Nuevo York
Member since Nov 2010
11677 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:11 am to
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If you had access to that kind of wealth, would you try to spend it all or invest most of it?


Philanthropy
Posted by MrWalkingMan
Republic of West Florida
Member since Aug 2010
8262 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:12 am to
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If you had access to that kind of wealth, would you try to spend it all or invest most of it?

Buyout Brian Kelly
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
29683 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:13 am to
Type an asterisk.

Cover the entire footprint of tiger stadium in asterisks.

Thats a billion.
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
181077 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:14 am to
I get the premise of the game, but it's sort of silly since Elon doesn't have $420 billion in cash, and if he tried to start cashing out, the value of all of his companies would plummet due to panic selling.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
8640 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:14 am to
Make a deal with a country to buy a ton of land and agree to let me make my own country.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
35023 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:17 am to
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I get the premise of the game, but it's sort of silly since Elon doesn't have $420 billion in cash,


But AKSHUALLY
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
86972 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:23 am to
I tried to get married but it said that's cheating
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
12244 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:26 am to
Still my favorite info graphic:

Posted by Bamafig
Member since Nov 2018
6326 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:27 am to
We need to say one billion like G Gordon Liddy, “one thousand million”

Federal debt is 37 thousand billion dollars
Posted by Taxing Authority
Houston
Member since Feb 2010
63014 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:36 am to
quote:

It’s crazy how difficult it is to even imagine the scale of billionaire wealth. I was using spendelonmusk.money, a web app that lets you see what spending Elon Musk’s fortune might look like, and even after buying absurd things, the balance barely moves. It’s less about shopping and more about realizing how far removed that amount of money is from everyday life. If you had access to that kind of wealth, would you try to spend it all or invest most of it?
Now try the sam e with our government's $6 trillion annual budget.
Posted by VolSquatch
First Coast
Member since Sep 2023
8149 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:45 am to
Philanthropy is an easy answer, but I think you have to be really careful with it.

You can create systems that only exist because they have an absurd amount of money funding them. Those things become inefficient. Then, even if they are doing good things, eventually the money will run out and that good thing is for naught.

I would probably set up some kind of portal where I could receive proposals from actual experts on sustainable things I could pay for that are hard to get funding for that could make a difference.

Maybe just fund as many nuclear power plants as I could, even if I just give power companies or the government a loan at like 1% interest on it over as long of a time period as they want.
Posted by LSUBoo
Knoxville, TN
Member since Mar 2006
103839 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:47 am to
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Buyout Brian Kelly


Posted by CaptainsWafer
TD Platinum Member
Member since Feb 2006
59221 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:49 am to
If im remembering correctly one million seconds is 11 days, and one billion seconds is around 32 years.
Posted by Rex Feral
Member since Jan 2014
16434 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:51 am to
A million seconds is 11.5 days.

A billion seconds is 31.7 years.

A trillions seconds is 31,700 years.
This post was edited on 10/22/25 at 11:53 am
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
73778 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:53 am to
I remember a similar site for spending Bill Gates's money.
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
12244 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:55 am to
All that reminds me of is Brewster's Millions.

Might be time for a remake.

Spend 3 Billion in 30 days to inherit a 30 billion dollar fortune.
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
181077 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:57 am to
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But AKSHUALLY



Just clarifying because too many of the "tax the billionaires" club don't understand how net worth works and this game feels like that sort of rhetoric
Posted by Mid Iowa Tiger
Undisclosed Secure Location
Member since Feb 2008
24422 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 12:04 pm to
Elon Musk is rich enough to have more G-650s than the USAF has total planes. He still would have plenty left over.
Posted by jaytothen
Member since Jan 2020
8573 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 12:11 pm to
quote:

If you had access to that kind of wealth, would you try to spend it all or invest most of it?


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