• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    “Billion”, sadly, is a term that nowadays conjures an individual human or corporate level figure.

    “Trillion” is an economy level figure and suitably conjures an idea of how fucked up you all are.

    IMHO.

    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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      yup. especially we like our ancestors for quite some time back have only dealt in thousands back when the richest dealt in millions.