One easy way to grasp the meaning of billions and trillions is to compute the number of seconds elapsed in X number of years.
A million seconds are about 16700 minutes, or 278 hours, or 11.6 days (all numbers rounded up)
A billion seconds is only 31.7 years
A trillion seconds are 31,688 years. I guess this means that humans have been around for ~7 trillion seconds (assuming the first humans showed up 200 thousand years ago based on the mitochondrial Eve concept).
Since the time of Jesus Christ (assuming it’s a historical figure) a mere 63.5 billion seconds have elapsed!
This shows that a trillion dollars is way too much money and that high inflation in the near future is inevitable. Of course, how high is “high,” is open to speculation.
P.S. It’s 2:00 am, so some of my math may be off. Caveat lector!!
