Nigerian musician Seun Kuti has sparked reactions online after explaining why many people do not fully understand how large a billion dollars truly is.
Speaking during a recent interview, Seun Kuti argued that the human brain struggles to properly comprehend extremely large figures, adding that people casually mention billions without understanding the scale.
“You cannot finish one billion dollars,” he said.
“I say, what I’m telling you people, because they call all this price, 13 billion, 12 billion, 10 billion. You people don’t know your brain, and it’s not your fault.”
According to him, “biologically speaking, the human brain did not evolve to understand such huge numbers.”
To illustrate his point, the singer referenced a popular comparison involving time.
“So there’s a very popular experiment to help people understand how big a billion is. So I’ll show you to understand the concept. So one million seconds is 11 days. How long do you think one billion seconds?… 37 years. That’s like 11,000 days, right? That’s the difference between million, which is 11 days, and 11,000 days, which is 37 years.”
Seun Kuti also used luxury spending examples to explain how difficult it would be to exhaust one billion dollars.
“You have a billion dollars, for example.What do want to buy with it. Private jets that’s 30 million you have 970 left you buy buy 4 private jets you still have 880 left.”
He further mentioned spending heavily on gold chains, Rolls Royce cars and Ferraris, while insisting that the amount would still remain massive despite extravagant purchases.
