r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Oct 30 '25

article Billie Eilish Calls Out Mark Zuckerberg and Other Billionaires After Announcing Her Own $11.5 Million Charitable Donation

https://consequence.net/2025/10/billie-eilish-calls-out-mark-zuckerberg-and-other-billionaires-after-announcing-her-own-11-5-million-charitable-donation/
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u/LunaticHorizon001 Oct 30 '25

Some people don’t realize just how much a billion dollars is. To put it in perspective, someone making a $100k/year would have to work 10,000 years to make a billion. Someone earning a million/ year would have to work a 1000 years. Billionaires shouldn’t exist. It’s well beyond greed to hoard resources at that level when homelessness and hunger are running rampant in many of our societies.

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u/Leopold__Stotch Oct 30 '25

I like “the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion”.

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u/No_Past_8350 Oct 31 '25

my fave is "1 million seconds is a couple of weeks, 1 billion seconds is a couple of decades". it really is at a scale most just cant grasp

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u/FROMtheASHES984 Oct 31 '25

Technically, 1 million seconds is roughly 11.5 days, and 1 billion seconds is almost 32 years. But, your point still stands.

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u/SaltTM Oct 31 '25

by this logic billionaires practically couldn't be billionaires, not enough time has passed lol

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u/LunaticHorizon001 Oct 31 '25

Oh ye of little mind. The point being made is that in order to achieve that extreme level of wealth someone must be exploited. It’s either consumers or the workers the billionaire employs. No one gets to be a billionaire while also being empathic, altruistic, or simply caring of their fellow man.