:: meanders ::
souvenirs from the space-time continuum

This comment from a post at EliteTrader.com puts $1M vs. $1B in perspective:

The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire can be calculated in seconds of a day.

A million seconds is 11 and a half days.

A billion seconds is 31.7 years.

You are the MAN Mr. Gates.

I don't know if I agree with the part about Mr. Gates being the man. Nothing against amassing wealth, but surely his creativity and wealth can be more abundantly spent on ideas, "things", and movements that will change the world to a more cooperative place, rather than the overly-competitive or despairing place it already is for so many people. My hope is that he, like Andrew Carnegie of the last Golden Age at the turn of a century, will leave his direct family adequately provided for and leave the rest to something wonderful, like the matching-grant libraries that bear Carnegies name across the United States.