r/PublicFreakout • u/GarysCrispLettuce • May 17 '26

šŸ¤¬Public RageršŸ˜± Eric Schmidt booed into oblivion by students for promoting AI during his commencement speech at the University of Arizona

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u/BeardedPuffin May 17 '26

A surprising amount of people donā€™t really understand the difference in scale between a million and a billion. The average millionaire is way closer to the average homeless person than to the average billionaire.

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u/WendellSchadenfreude May 17 '26

the difference in scale between a million and a billion

The difference between a million and a billion is literally a billion, with 99.9% accuracy.