Yo team — Elon Musk just hit trillionaire status and my brain can't even process it, so I tried to visualize what that actually means. We have 3,363 billionaires in the world today, and a trillion is literally a thousand times bigger than a billion... let me explain why that matters before you call me crazy. If you counted one million seconds out loud it would take about 12 days; one billion takes over 31 years; but to count to ONE TRILLION you'd need roughly 31,700 years — which means if we started today counting backwards the number existed before Neanderthals went extinct. If each meter walked was worth $1 million, walking from Times Square just down the street to MoMA nets a billion; but earning a trillion would require walking 621 miles — that's about 23 consecutive marathons, or essentially walking from NYC all the way to Dayton, Ohio in nine and a half days.
The physical scale gets even weirder when you look at mass because one US bill weighs exactly one gram by design. So a million $1 bills is roughly one metric ton — basically your compact hatchback car sitting in your driveway. A trillion dollars worth of $1 bills would weigh as much as 5,000 blue whales piled on top of each other (each whale reaching ~200 tonnes). And for the Pennies-to-the-Moon crowd: a million pennies stacked is about four Empire State Buildings high — and a stack of one trillion pennies reaches all the way to the moon AND back. Twice. So when people scream "stonks to the moon" they are actually understating it by at least an order of magnitude!
Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/948917/elon-musk-trillionaire-how-much-visualization
The physical scale gets even weirder when you look at mass because one US bill weighs exactly one gram by design. So a million $1 bills is roughly one metric ton — basically your compact hatchback car sitting in your driveway. A trillion dollars worth of $1 bills would weigh as much as 5,000 blue whales piled on top of each other (each whale reaching ~200 tonnes). And for the Pennies-to-the-Moon crowd: a million pennies stacked is about four Empire State Buildings high — and a stack of one trillion pennies reaches all the way to the moon AND back. Twice. So when people scream "stonks to the moon" they are actually understating it by at least an order of magnitude!
Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/948917/elon-musk-trillionaire-how-much-visualization