but these authority figures seem so untouchable to regular people who tend to just fold instead of challenging authority figures.
I think another part of it is that the numbers just get too abstract for people to really take in. Like, a billion dollars is an INSANE amount of money; if you worked 40 hours a week and took no weeks off and were paid hourly the equivalent of what someone making minimum wage would make in an entire year ($15,080), it would still take you over 31 YEARS at that rate just to get to your 1st billion.
I think people's minds just kind of gloss this over a lot of times; a million is a lot, but it's not that much, right? And therefore a billion isn't really that much more than it, right? Close enough. And since it's not that far fetched to think that someone can achieve a million dollars in their life, surely it can't be that much harder to become a billionaire.
I think another part of it is that the numbers just get too abstract for people to really take in. Like, a billion dollars is an INSANE amount of money; if you worked 40 hours a week and took no weeks off and were paid hourly the equivalent of what someone making minimum wage would make in an entire year ($15,080), it would still take you over 31 YEARS at that rate just to get to your 1st billion.
I think people's minds just kind of gloss this over a lot of times; a million is a lot, but it's not that much, right? And therefore a billion isn't really that much more than it, right? Close enough. And since it's not that far fetched to think that someone can achieve a million dollars in their life, surely it can't be that much harder to become a billionaire.