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In thousands of lifetimes. 1,000,000 per year is a stupid amount of money to live on. If you "only" spent $1,000,000 a year you could live on 250billion for 250,000 years. That isn't including any interest accrued.
People constantly underestimate how large a billion actually is.
The difference between a million and a billion dollars is approximately 1 billion dollars
A million heartbeats is 10 days. A billion is 27 years
That's going to change a lot from person to person
Edit. Lol downvoting facts. Feels like reddit here. Congratulations!
Maybe billionaires just have faster heart rates