People know what a million euros is, and having that 1000x is not that weird to reason about
Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally]
tate@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week agoPeople think they understand numbers like billion because they understand thousand and billion is just thousand times thousand (million) times thousand. Multiplication is fairly intuitive, but exponentiation is not. Without explicitly thinking it through people feel like 1000^3 is not very different from 1000 * 3.
Amir@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
It’s the same reason the lottery fools so many people into gambling their money away.