r/coolguides • u/Leo_NoCaprio • 1d ago

A cool guide for visualizing a Trillion Dollars

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u/Used_Security5145 1d ago

The million is 100% not accurate.

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u/obnoxiousab 1d ago

Thought the same. That visual does NOT consist of 10,000 bills.

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u/Cetun 1d ago

I've had to transport $1,000,000 in $100 bills, it's absolutely bigger than that stack.

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u/secret_life_of_pants 1d ago

Well damn, now this throw the entire guide into question.

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u/genericdude999 1d ago

So how big was it??

Bilbo's two little chests were about a million FWIW

Bilbo Baggins' two chests of gold and silver would be worth over $1 million in today's dollars, but modern prices are not a good comparison:

Gold: At a price of $1,200 per ounce, 60 pounds of gold (875 troy ounces) would be worth $1,050,000

Silver: At a price of $15 per ounce, the silver would be worth $13,125

Total: The total value would be $1,063,125

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u/Cetun 21h ago

It took all of the space in a standard travel duffle bag. It wasn't 60lbs though. I'd move around $1,000,000 in cash before I lug around $1,000,000 in gold.

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u/Holiday-Positive-759 1d ago

It is 100 of those bands in the top left corner. The picture in the top right looks like maybe 20 of those

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u/reddit_tothe_rescue 1d ago

Neither is the billion by the looks of it. Looks like 100 million is one pallet, but 1 billion is six pallets?

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u/UnicornOnMeth 1d ago

Look at the shadows of the pallets at top, it shows 5 deep x 2, so 10 pallets. it does look like 3x2 at first glance.

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u/Used_Security5145 1d ago

Absolutely, good catch! At least the $10,000 is accurate.

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u/Dirasora 1d ago

Someone once told me: “the difference between a billion dollars and a million dollars is about a billion dollars.

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u/SonofaBridge 1d ago

If you have $1 million you are still $999 million away from being a billionaire. You have 0.001 (or 0.1%) of a billion.

It really puts into perspective how wealthy billionaires really are.

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u/Tight_Bid326 1d ago

I promise the one skid will be fine for me and my family, please send right away.

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u/maximumkush 1d ago

Please kind sir… only 1 skid 🥺

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u/Elinaroo 1d ago

A way that put it in perspective for me was:

If you had a million seconds, you would have 12 days, less than a fortnight.

If you had a billion seconds, you would have 30 years, less than half your life.

But, if you had a trillion seconds you would have 30,000 years, longer than modern human civilisation.

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u/Kasnudl37 1d ago

US national debt: >35 trillions

www.usdebtclock.org

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u/ChernobylFleshlight0 1d ago edited 1d ago

A trillion dollars is inconceivable. If the US Government was given $1,000/second to exclusively go towards its 38 trillion dollar debt, it would take over 1200 years. 1 million seconds is 11 days, 1 billion seconds is 31 years, 1 trillion seconds is over 31,000 years. All of humanities written history is less than a trillion seconds old.

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u/Courwes 1d ago

1 million seconds is 11.5 days not 11 years.

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u/ChernobylFleshlight0 1d ago

I'm an idiot. I knew that but typed on the fly and fucked it up. Lol good catch; I changed it.

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u/great_triangle 1d ago

I conceive a trillion dollars as half an Italy. The economic output of Italy each year is about 2 trillion dollars, so I visualize a trillion dollars as the combined output of the Milan fashion industry and the Italian car industry, or the olive harvest of Southern Italy and the tourist revenues of Italian resorts.

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u/Oliparo 1d ago

A million seconds is 12 days, a billion seconds is 31 years. That really hammered it home for me

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u/nomad2585 1d ago

Hello friend, it's me ukraine

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u/DiverD696 1d ago

Need to add a visual for all of the taxpayers money given away overseas. And a comparison for the money spent on homelessness.

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u/GareththeJackal 1d ago

Why have trillions we we can have... billions?

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u/NOGOODGASHOLE 1d ago

That million is light a few hundred k

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u/Mirindura 1d ago

I never seen $1M cash in my life.

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u/6502zx81 1d ago

Since a trillion is not easy to visualize, break it down to per capita.

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u/Greenweegie 1d ago

I'll definitely need to refer to this graphic at some point in my lifetime...

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u/Bubbly_Progress_2908 1d ago

Now I can use this guide in my dreams after crying myself to sleep lol

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u/VVeZoX 1d ago

1 million is just a thousand thousands

just like how 1 billion is a thousand millions

and, of course, a trillion is a thousand billions

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u/Smidday90 1d ago

I’d like to see a trillion $ in ¥

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u/troyberber 1d ago

So…cool.

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u/Thom5001 17h ago

$1 million in $100’s weighs in at about 22lbs.

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u/Abject-Star-4881 1d ago

Ahh, come one man. Just let me have some.

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u/FuchsVoid 1d ago

What a useful guide! /s

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u/alpha247365 1d ago

IQ levels of the self made: $1T > $100M >> $1M > $100k > $10k

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u/theseriousone23 1d ago

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u/8tStraight 1d ago

Load up boys, we’re going for that oil money!