A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip

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Title	:	A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip
Lasting	:	1.19.08
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There's an FAQ about this if you pull down the description, because I figure there'll be some questions about how this was all put together!
Comment from : Tom Scott

As a NZer, that shopping centre and these roads look shockingly American, except it's on the left which is familiar
Comment from : margeobur

Can someone please tell me in kilometres how much the distance was ??
Comment from : Rishi

You were driving on the wrong side of the road scott
Comment from : Voided Winner

Can't believe it took you to my local beach back where I used to live in England What a pleasant surprise to watch this video illustrating the difference between a million and a billion, while also taking me literally on a trip down memory lane XDbrYou passed my old schools, the old shops I used to go to and some of my friends' houses Lovely <3
Comment from : tymki

Looking at this from being used to right hand traffic The scares are too much
Comment from : DweltMusic

So when the politicians say 'quantitative easing' of billions/trillions, this is the kind of debt they are imposing on YOU and me and children not yet born We are being conned
Comment from : Mike Mike

props to tom for not saying a word, i personally would have narrated literally every thought that came to my mind and every observation i made about the driving environment
Comment from : JoeTheBeau

33:14 oh my god, i wanna drive here so bad its so fast and wide and smooth
Comment from : JoeTheBeau

Love the ticktock sound of his indicators very soothing ☺️
Comment from : sezziek1

I'm surprised by how similar the highways look compared to my country (a significantly less well developed one than the UK) Are there international companies for this or a set of regulations all countries are expected to abide by when constructing highways?
Comment from : ROM

100 metres is a million, which means 100 000 metres is a billion 100 000 metres is 100 kilometers, or 60 miles for our freedom friends 2-3 steps is what it takes to get 10k, but a billion takes an hour to drive, at a 100km/h or 60miles/h Fascinating
Comment from : Big Yang

by far the greatest visualization of money
Comment from : suspiciously interesting

Im not even watching this for the money part, this video is just genuinely relaxing
Comment from : Avion Oasia

Another quite good comparison is time:br1000000 seconds are about 11 and a half day br1000000000 seconds are more than 31 and a half years…
Comment from : Zander Valle

No company and no man should ever have a billion dollars !!
Comment from : Puddle Stones

Some people have that much in 100 dollar bills
Comment from : Darius

its like being in a taxi in london
Comment from : Anthony

"That guy's worth a billion dollars? Geez, my dad didn't earn that in his entire life"—Norm Macdonald
Comment from : dixon pinfold

I really appreciate the effort it must have taken to sit through a solid 75 minute drive and still have it in you to deliver a great conclusion in (as far as i can see) one take
Comment from : yungjiggamayne226

You should have notation, like that of Don Coffey with his Driver's Cab View videos
Comment from : The Observer

Taxi costs be like:
Comment from : Jan-Noah

I don't understand why you do these wasteful experiments For what?
Comment from : x

Within less than a second he completely outdid my net worth
Comment from : 🇺🇦 bettercalldelta

Tom Scott: "I want to go to the beach, but it isnt currently in the budget Oh! I'll just record me driving to the beach for an hour so I get ad revenue! Brilliant!" 😂
Comment from : TheGreatMunky

the drive camera litteraly ducked my brain up, i leave in france and we drive on right side, and it feels so wrong seeing someone suddenly driving left side 🤯
Comment from : Brendan97310

I watched this whole thing and still don’t know why
Comment from : SVC

My favorite comparison is:br1 million seconds is 116 daysbr1 billion seconds is 317 years
Comment from : 絶望 student loans

use seconds to visualize decimal differences:br1 — 1 secondbr10 — 10 secondsbr100 — 1 minute 40 secondsbr1 000 — 16 minutes 40 secondsbr10 000 — 2 hours 46 minutes 40 secondsbr100 000 — 1 day 3 hours 46 minutes 40 secondsbr1 000 000 — 11 days 13 hours 46 minutes 40 secondsbr10 000 000 — 3 months* 24 days 17 hours 46 minutes 40 seconds i* — (91 days ie 30-31-30 ie April-May-June)/ibr100 000 000 — 3 years 2 months* 1 day 9 hours 46 minutes 40 seconds i* — (61 days ie 30-31 ie April-May)/ibr1 000 000 000 — 31 years* 8 months** 8 days 1 hour 46 minutes 40 seconds i* — (including 7 leap years)/i i** — (244 days ie April-November)/i
Comment from : Deep Low Dock

Nobody should own that much Money for himselfbrThat's the crime of capitalism Misery of many many human lives for the sake of some slavemasters
Comment from : yahlov

wow
Comment from : Beo

I am SO impressed! He used gis turning signels
Comment from : Margaret Kinnaman

Time is also a good way to visualize it 1 million seconds ago was last week 1 billion seconds ago was 1992 (at the time of commenting) 1 trillion seconds ago, we hadn't invented writing yet
Comment from : The Harvinator

This reminds me of NRK's Slow TV specials
Comment from : Dilly Mackey

If youre going to walk the equivalent of a stack of bills try not walk in a circle
Comment from : SUPERPOD Gaming

A million is 1,000² and a billion is 1,000³ So a million is closer to a billion than to one (1,000⁰)brbrConclusion: Tax the rich! They get richer exponentiallybrThank you for coming to my TED talk
Comment from : Luca Hermann

Hesoyam
Comment from : Anurup Mohanty

this reminds me of when you have funding for a project which runs out tomorrow, and the best you can think of is to blow it on something random like a long drive to nowhere
Comment from : toast_on_toast

0:22 That stack would be a 100 m wide if my math is correct 01 mm times 1,000,000
Comment from : Bert Visscher

It helps me to understand by thinking 1 million seconds is 11 days 1 billion seconds is 32 yearsbrbrI think if people had been able to get their head around how much a billion is, they wouldn't have let a few billionaires talk us into believing we're struggling because we are so greedy and entitled and if we cut back on how many coffees we buy and work harder (despite a cap on wages), we'd be able to save money People handed over ridiculous amounts of wealth and power without realizing it
Comment from : Jess Blake

Nice! The magnitude of difference between billion and million can be illustrated with this example of the time scale: A million seconds is 12 days A billion seconds is 31 years A trillion seconds is 31,688 years
Comment from : richard coughlan

Incontheivable
Comment from : Marty Bell

15:23 bookmark
Comment from : carealoo744

There are so many great videos on YouTube But this one is real, real special
Comment from : Ornery Spy

This is how Americans learn about measurements
Comment from : CORNZ P

I was expecting there to be a map in the end of how long he drove 😕
Comment from : Liçá

from this point on i will measure things in dollars not sheep units
Comment from : Raymond Rynehart

A billion is a million millions
Comment from : Random Boy

elon musk is laughing at this video
Comment from : nick smith

Took Tom about $26 Million to reach the junction where I work!
Comment from : Rob

Clever idea of an youtuber to monitise daily commute
Comment from : Sushant Tiwari

How many takes did it take to shoot the video? 🤪
Comment from : Kautschukkartoffel

A great visualisation of time, and the history of Earth was an educational trail of 4543 metres; conveniently, 1 metre was equal to 1 million years, and all major events were flagged at the appropriate distance from today It showed clearly, how the earliest dinosaurs were farther from the T-Rex that we are, and just how late multicellular life actually appeared But probably the most eye opening of them all is that human history from the advent of written script is only 34 millimetres
Comment from : Valentine Taylor

My favorite representation of this is in time 1 million seconds is 12 days, but 1 billion seconds is 31 years
Comment from : Vicinitrix

So we're using the short or correct system here?br100-thousand million dollars - ie a Milliard
Comment from : Justin Cronkright

And some people still believe billionaires actually deserve their wealth
Comment from : Chris

This is probably the most relaxing video on youtube yet
Comment from : NeverPro

What a great demonstration of how big a thousand is!
Comment from : David Oleander

A distance counter under the dollar amount would have been good
Comment from : light487

My favorite explanation of the difference between a million and a billion is time; brA million seconds is 11 days, 13 hours 46 minutes and 40 secondsbrA Billion seconds is 31 years 84 months
Comment from : Anthony Higham

Can't believe Donald Rumsfeld announced that 2300 of these badboys went missing a DAY before 9/11 and one of the planes crashed right into where they had all the information of their spending stored in the Pentagon Crazy coincidence, and a crazy amount of money
Comment from : Oching4

A billion is a huge number
Comment from : 90 98

Oh my gosh!!!! What a perspective And it takes long enough for many various realizations to come to mind StaggeringbrAt the start I was thinking maybe anout 18-20 miles I'm now at just over 1/4 billion in the video and am wondering how far UNDER I had originally estimated
Comment from : Ken C

You just lost 50 quid driving past Mickey D's
Comment from : workablob

Now imagine spending 42 of these and only getting Twitter in exchange
Comment from : Fabian

1000 × the time taken to cover 1 thousand dollars and you get a million, what's there to visualise?
Comment from : Space Walker

By my calculations (please, mathy-minded people, correct me if I'm wrong), the US national debt in these terms, could to the the moon and back about 9909687 times
Comment from : Pam Drayer

Now you have to do a follow-up and do a Trillion dollar drive 🤣🤣 Just a few12hr videos later we should have a good series
Comment from : HillbillyBasshead

That's mind boggling Thank you for this visualisation I am not sure I actually get it still, but that's kind of the point Human brains aren't good at big numbers
Comment from : GracessNella

You know, I'm really jealous of the streets' smooth asphalt Good luck finding any stretch of road THAT well mantained in Italy
Comment from : Lily Was Here

Is it common to park facing either way in England?
Comment from : Tom McDonnell

Someone said to me, if you count to 31trillion (The debt the United States owes) It would take a thousand years I said, "You are nuts" I take that back What an astonishing, eye opening fact I just watched Thank You Tom FJB MAGA2024!!
Comment from : Tom McDonnell

try lining up indias population
Comment from : Shubham Soni

this video is so calming
Comment from : liam ks

An hour later, Tom walked into the sea
Comment from : Goon124

Wow
Comment from : Shado

Unbelievable!
Comment from : CinemaSaurTvShowChanel

Well, you just drove the distance of an "english" billion, not a real billion! The key is in the latin root "bi" meaning "two" or "twice", hence a billion is 1000 000 000 000 (a million millions, not a thousand millions) so you should keep drivingand driving 😉
Comment from : jarkmodels

Had you have done this video now the counter is what the petrol (gas for the Americans) would cost
Comment from : 3lixir Gaming

that truck is parked on the wrong side of the road like it's normal
Comment from : JCS

This is showing me how disorienting it would be if I a) had to drive on the left and b) measured anything in miles I’d rent a car in the UK just to try it out, but I’m not letting my GPS try to explain things to me in miles
Comment from : Dylan MacBurnie

Now do this with 1 trillion dollars on a jet
Comment from : Unprofessional Cynic

Its like comparing trying to run 100m to 100km honestly Runners or Road travelers should be able to tell the difference
Comment from : Alif Putrawan

December 2022 Twitter has a market cap of $4109 Billion This makes Twitter (only) the world's 416th most valuable company by market cap
Comment from : - Withaar