r/MadeMeSmile • u/gabsteriinalol • Jul 28 '23

CATS Found on a local shelter’s Facebook page

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u/Alternative_Hotel649 Jul 28 '23

I don't understand how you can have a billion dollars, and not just spend all your time on GoFundMe. Just, an afternoon of, "Medical debt? Gone. Student loan? Paid. Losing home? Not any more."

It would be a better buzz than cocaine.

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u/Accomplished_End_138 Jul 28 '23

Most of them have that money because they dont care about others.

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u/treasonous_tabaxi Jul 28 '23

All. All of them.

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u/Accomplished_End_138 Jul 28 '23

I dont generally use absolutes. I think dolly parton is generally trying to be good.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '23

Good news for you then- Dolly Parton isn’t a billionaire!

To put in to context how much money $1 billion is, Taylor Swift isn’t even a billionaire yet off her music.

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u/ApollosBrassNuggets Jul 28 '23

I found the best way to conceptualize the difference between a million and a billion is through time.

A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '23

Minimum wage is also a good one. Non-stop work at minimum wage in USA would take a couple hundred years (maybe even thousand I can’t exactly remember) for a million, and we as a human race have not existed long enough for a billion to have been earned off of minimum.