A Million vs. a Billion Dollars: A Road Trip

Tom Scott · Explainer · 1 h 19 min · 2020 · YouTube title: A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip

Why it's here

HN points to it whenever discussion turns to billionaire wealth or the human difficulty of grasping very large numbers.

What it covers

Tom Scott makes the difference between a million and a billion dollars tangible by using distance on a road trip instead of volume. The drive makes the scale of a billion intuitively felt.