Even Robert Reich is Disappointing Me

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89. Not what I'm talking about

A billionaire can leverage their vast wealth to influence situations 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 on the same planet, as a billionaire.
Our brains are just not wired to understand it. The amounts of money we are talking about are humbling.
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 at random, 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. While both can be bad, they are not the same in scale.