Nigerian musician Seun Kuti has sparked debate about money after claiming that many people do not truly understand how large a billion dollars is.
Speaking during an interview, Seun argued that people casually throw around figures in billions because they do not understand the scale of such numbers.
According to him, it is impossible for one person to spend a billion dollars, no matter what they choose to buy.
“You cannot finish one billion dollars. I say, what I’m telling you people, because they call all this price, 13 billion, 12 billion, 10 billion. You people don’t know your brain, and it’s not your fault. Biologically speaking, the human brain did not evolve to understand such huge numbers,” he stated.
To drive home his point, Seun cited a well-known comparison involving time.
“So there’s a very popular experiment to help people understand how big a billion is. So I’ll show you to understand the concept. So one million seconds is 11 days. How long do you think one billion seconds?… 37 years. That’s like 11,000 days, right? That’s the difference between million, which is 11 days, and 11,000 days, which is 37 years. You have a billion dollars, for example. What do want to buy with it. Private jets that’s 30 million you have 970 left you buy buy 4 private jets you still have 880 left,” he added.
