Even Robert Reich is Disappointing Me

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84. Not the same thing

Sorry, I sincerely do not mean this as a slight to you but I honestly believe that the wealth and the corresponding influence it creates, for billionaires, is not appreciated in the proper context.

A billionaire, even a small scale billionaire like Steyer, can leverage that influence in ways only large governments could at one time.

Even someone with $900 million dollars to their name is not even in the same zip code, even the same planet, as a billionaire.
Our brains are just not wired to understand it because even I don't claim to understand it and no one should make that claim.
I encounter these same issues when trying to convey astronomical distances between us and other stuff in our galaxy or universe at large.
Did you know that if you set out from Earth in a random direction with no destination in mind, in a straight line, that your chance of encountering another stellar object is so small as to be nearly impossible? No matter how far you traveled or for how long you traveled?
That is analogue to the difference between a person with a million dollars and a person with a billion dollars.