the.com/billionaire
A person whose net worth no longer fits on a jumbotron, or in a conscience.
means A person whose personal wealth totals at least a thousand million units of currency.
from Built in English by swapping the 'm' of 'millionaire' for a 'b,' following the pattern of 'million' to 'billion.' 'Million' itself comes from Italian 'milione,' a big augmentation of 'mille' (thousand) — literally a 'great thousand.' 'Billion' was coined in French by prefixing 'bi-' (two) to mark the second power of a million, though English and French later split on whether it meant a thousand million or a million million before the shorter scale won out. 'Millionaire' was a 19th-century French import, '-aire' being the suffix for 'one characterized by,' and 'billionaire' simply rode that same suffix up a rung once fortunes got big enough to need the word.
- scale check
- a million seconds is 12 days, a billion is 32 years
- spending test
- spend $1000 daily, still need 2700 years
- global count
- over 2,700 exist, most made it, didn't inherit it
- wealth source
- over 60 percent comes from assets, not salary