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a million (1e6) seconds is roughly 11 days
a billion (1e9) seconds is over 31 years

beware logarithmic thinking

to reify this somewhat: if you had a job that paid you a constant $3600/hr (one dollar per second worked), 40 hours a week, from the moment you turned 18 to the moment you turned 65, and you never had to spend any money on anything (including food, rent, bills, medical emergencies, and taxes), you would retire with roughly a third of a billion dollars

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