Why did I expect him to say at least one thing through the entire road trip? Or like, listen to a podcast or some royalty free music or something. I have to be in a certain mood to just drive for more than 15 minutes in complete silence.
I think the best way I've ever heard the distinction summed up is: "What's the difference between a million and a billion? About a billion." Because it's fully true. The difference between a million and a billion is 0.999 billion, which feels so close to 1 that the difference might as well not be there at all. Compared to a billion, a million is practically nothing.
@@callmeshaggy5166 In many sciences it would not only be accepted, but even praised. If you get a result with p = 0.001 in a social study then you are a very very happy person.
This is the perfect representation of the disparity of wealth. I could live VERY comfortably for 10-20 years off of a million or 2. The difference between that and a billion is inconceivable almost.
And not once did you stop and think "why is half of my income getting taken by the government" Nope. I'll bet your solution is "more gubmint will save us!"
@@Owen-zm6sq The US government sends and spend hundreds of billions of dollars on outside interests for and with other countries. Keep voting for the same people though, maybe one day you'll figure it out.
Am I the only one who wishes this could be Tom Scott making casual conversation and rambling about random money and quantity facts for an hour in the car?
im honestly disappointed that isnt what this was. but also disappointed in myself that id expect that of him😂 But come on that would be so fun and informative!
This is a literal work of art - it manages to be simultaneously both very boring and very interesting at the same time…nothing else manages to capture both ends of the spectrum quite so eloquently!!!
One of the things this teaches me is that I am NOT ready to attempt driving in a country that drives on the left side of the road. I had a couple of moments of panic-by-proxy when you turned into what felt to me like a lane of oncoming traffic. Also, I'm amazed at just how many wind turbines are casually dotting the landscape. I never realized how big wind power was in Britain.
@@blueheartorangeheart3768 I'm not quite 1/2 way through listening to the drive and that isn't editing, that's proper silence. he's a driving hero for that.
@@huntermitchell6335shutter speed is the time it takes for the image to be taken, framerate is the time in between 2 images being taken. Framerate is what is causing that
I was listening to some old Arctic Monkeys stuff yesterday, and by these prices, "High Green mate, via Hillsborough please!" would surely be at least sixty million US dollars... Good thing their music career took off, if they had to pay all that back.
Imagine if the “one-dimensional” thing in this video was time, instead of space, so we just have Tom stare awkwardly into a camera for however long a time, and then a thousand times longer.
@@Anankin12 about italian drivers... ;) it is utter mayhem over there. There is this old joke about the taxi driver smashing through intersections with a red light, and stopping on ones where it is green, because someone might run the red light.
what I love mostly about this video is that the million dollar walk was so short that it isn't even mentioned in the chapters and the video is still over an hour long.
I just have "Michael Says Prime Numbers for 3 Hours" as a companion audio source to this so it sounds like he's (poorly) guessing how many dollars its been already
the guesses are a bit less poor when you set the driving video to 0.25x speed and the prime numbers to 2x speed xD I'm trying to see if Michael will kind of keep pace with Tom this way
my unpopular opinion is that people complain about superhero films having too many cameos and stuff but that actually makes them more like the comics where characters will just appear for a single panel sometimes
i assumed you'd just be like "imagine me doing that 1000 times..." but then you went to the car, and i imidiatly stopped and checked how long this video was. well done.
What's more astonishing is Tom's ability to remain silent the whole time. I'd be either giving a lecture to an imaginary audience, arguing with myself, or whistling the theme tune to the antiques road show.
@@buttermanw I'm gonna start saying that. Whenever someone says equations stuff "meth". Of course, I nearly wrote this comment as "I'm going to start using that" but, uh, that would conjure up a much different mental image than I was going for.
@@Schixotica not really. If this video was a time analogy, the length of the video would be 1 minute + 1000 minutes = about 16 hours. While I agree that they are both ultimately still using "numbers to measure numbers", I do agree with Pekee that this is a more compelling experience of what a billion is. (If people watch the whole video). Bcos ppl do intuitively understand the vast difference between the speed of a brisk walk for a minute and driving for an hour by watching it. 2 weeks and 30 years still runs into a bit of the issue of intuitively feeling the difference as the passage of time feels different for different ppl especially if they have different ages. 30 years is a blur to an older person but can feel like a millenia to a kid But yea, anyway, opinions and preferences. Don't believe there's an objective end all argument to be had on which is "the best" way to represent the difference of a million and a billion
I can't tell you how good it is to see someone using "spartan" to describe "simple" for once, rather than to idolize some warrior-cult - as is wont on yt -.
Did the math, kinda off. 1 day = 86400, 1 mil/ 86400 = 11,57 which rounds up so should be = 12 days, then to make it more precise use the exact number from before to mutliply by a 1000 to get 11574 days (rounded) which translates to 11574/365,25 = 31,6879 years which rounds up to 32, but use the exact number again and mutliply by 1000 to get 31688 years. (rounded again) So in total: 1 mil seconds = 12 days (rounded up) 1 bil seconds = 32 years (rounded up) 1 tril seconds = 31688 years (rounded up) After I did the math and spent like 5 min on typing this I realised it was completly useless but I am still gonna post it because I spent time on it ;-;
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. XD You passed my old schools, the old shops I used to go to and some of my friends' houses. Lovely
They should watch the process of earning a billion pounds (or dollars) at a rate of £1 (or $1) per second. That's £300 (or $300...) in 5 minutes. It'd take more than 3 decades to get to 1 billion.
There is no unreasonable amount of money for one person to possess. It's none of your damn business how much someone else earns. They provide thousands of jobs and created billions worth of goods that you use daily thanks to them. If you are poor in America, it is your fault for not taking advantage like all those you envy.
Definitely prefer using seconds to help people grasp the difference between million (11.5 days), billion (31 years 8 months ~5 days), and trillion (basically 31,689 years).
This video is dated by the petrol station on the entrance into margate (1:09:52) when the petrol was only £1.14 a litre. As of today (01/07/22) that petrol station now charges £1.94 per litre! Very fun video. I live fairly close to the start point and make that same journey quite regularly, so it was interesting seeing Tom doing it.
@@soumyaneelmanna3097 apartments are rare in Europe except in the cities. Even in cities, it's quite a recent phenomenon (1-2 decades max) due to overcrowding.
Can we all just take a second to appreciate that Tom just did over an hour of uncut video of him driving in silence to Margate JUST to try and give us a different perspective on million vs billion?!?! Bravo my friend 👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏
"Dear diary. Went to the beach today. Some guy walked past telling his camera that if you want a trillion dollars, you need to fly a 747 for four days."
Timestamps for each order of magnitude (ten to the power of x) for the driving: 10^0 (one): 2:18 10^1 (ten): 2:18 10^2 (a hundred): 2:18 10^3 (a thousand): 2:18 10^4 (ten thousand): 2:18 10^5 (a hundred thousand): 2:22 10^6 (a million): 2:50 10^7 (ten million): 6:17 10^8 (a hundred million): 12:36 10^9 (a billion): 1:17:14
The best visualisation of a truly staggering amount of money to date. Fantastic video as always Mr Scott, albeit a missed opportunity to title the video: "The Billion Dollar Road to Margate." 😆
This video is incredible! Simply mind-blowing. I couldn't believe my eyes as I was watching, yet the facts can't be disputed! It's possible to have a sunny day with clear, blue skies in England!
Within a minute or two he exceeds what I'm expected to make during my life time. Yet through the entire video he only makes a fraction of what my country throws away each week.
*Gets pulled over* Officer: "Do you know how fast you were going back there?" Tom: "About a million dollars a minute?" Officer: *Confused look on face*
I've heard an interesting comparison of those values on an example of time. One million seconds is over 11 days and one billion seconds is about 32 years xD
It's also crazy to think that the vast majority of wealth is stored and will never really be used while more than half the people on earth live on less than $5 per day.
Thanks for the shoutout Tom, and you're absolutely right! I 100% agree about the difficulty of imagining volume verses area. In fact I'm trying to work that into my next video right now! This video just gave me extra incentive!
Scale is also a huge factor to visualize things. Using something so small and very fast travel really make this work so well. Volume comparisons can work in a reasonable scale, like how many Toyota Corolla interiors fit in an Olympic swimming pool (almost 800). Imagining how many times the interior volume of Bill Gates's house would fit inside the relatively nearby Mt. Rainier, not so much (probably about 7.5 million).
Yup now all we need is a visual demonstration between a young person calling something a billion and an old person from the UK that grew up with the long scale. Probably best to move on from 1 dollar bills for that though, it'd take a while to do that especially for the long scale billion.
@@extrastuff9463 oof, long scale, he's just demonstrated a milliard dollars, a billion would take forever (edit: not literally, but the video would be 41+ days long)
Fun fact, a lot of countries still use the long scale. I live in the Netherlands and we call your billion a ‘miljard’. And a billionaire a ‘miljardair’ ;)
I love how the GPS immediately just shows you that getting a billion dollars is impossible, since you need to go both east and west at the same time to reach it :D
@@Ktulu789 It was simply masked by the door. The sky isn't working as a green screen because the overlay of the $ amount is over Tom's head quite often.
Potentially even less too as when calculating the distance, the extra distance from changing lanes probably wasn't factored in... ... or, the extra distance was factored in because it's Tom, which makes it even more ridiculous
When I was a kid my father explained it to me like this. If you have $1,000,000 dollars and you spend 1,000 dollars a day, in 3 years you'll be broke. If you have $1,000,000,000 dollars and spend 1,000 dollars a day, it will take 3,000 years to go broke.
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!
Hi!
why does this say 2 weeks ago
how can this comment be 2 weeks old while the video was published 1 min ago???
2weeks
@@ellermg unlisted video
You know you’ve made it when you can sit at a red light in total silence and still maintain viewers
I'll be honest, I skipped through that bit...
@@macronencer you are in the minority id assume.
Same too
I wouldn't think many would watch it all
@@macronencer same
I just wanted a bit of musac in the background
Why did I expect him to speak through the entire road trip
Why did I expect him to say at least one thing through the entire road trip? Or like, listen to a podcast or some royalty free music or something. I have to be in a certain mood to just drive for more than 15 minutes in complete silence.
M.K. McGill count that cash baby! 💰
Same
i kinda liked it
i started listening to the blinkers and such
It was all just an excuse so Tom could go to the beach and write it off as a business expense
Excuse of cheap gas and coronavirus isolation
Albeit three times, haha.
the brightness levels on the beach just increased by 1000x when another brit arrived on the beach with their white skin :D
Exactly what I think.
Alternatively, Tom has had advanced warning that UA-cam's algorithm now prefers videos over an hour long.
I think the best way I've ever heard the distinction summed up is:
"What's the difference between a million and a billion? About a billion."
Because it's fully true. The difference between a million and a billion is 0.999 billion, which feels so close to 1 that the difference might as well not be there at all. Compared to a billion, a million is practically nothing.
That goes for anything with a factor of 1000.
A statement that is true with 99.9% accuracy. Such a margin would be easily accepted as fact in most scientific studies.
That's a thousandth though, not a billionth. There is a massive difference between one-thousand, and one-billion.
@@joeshmoe6930 Um it's 0.999 which is 99.9%
@@callmeshaggy5166 In many sciences it would not only be accepted, but even praised. If you get a result with p = 0.001 in a social study then you are a very very happy person.
Much respect that Tom was dedicated enough to the one-shot that this was the third take. $2 Billion worth of footage wasted
don't forget to count the drive back
@@emilywilson967 Maybe this was his drive home
@@fortnitekindasuckslmao7532 He'd have to drive back in between takes meaning that's $4 billion worth wasted minimum
$2 billion worth of footage *invested
@@emilywilson967 but the return was not filmed, so it is worthless. :-)
Finally, my life's dream has been achieved: a long car ride with Tom Scott in awkward silence.
s/awkward/comfortable/g
@@Xiph1980 ?
I live near the place at the start so I knew where the road would take him for a while :)
windows 8 invented the command prompt then unix stole it
@@coolyellowskeleton bruu u silly
Tom's car's HUD scrolls up money for distance travelled almost as quickly as an Aberdeen Taxi meter.
Amazing comparison.
Not quite as quickly though
Holy Smokes, That comparison is just Brilliant.
I... That's... Hahahahahahahaha
not the comment i expected to see but the comment i'm glad i saw
the one thing that made me realize just how insane a billion is, was this comparison "1 million seconds is 11 days, 1 billion seconds is 32 YEARS"
And a trillion seconds is 32 *THOUSAND* years.
Same
Literally just 1000 times bigger.
In 12 million US Dollars turn right.
MrJohnisthename xd
Underrated comment 🤣
We will measure distance using anything except what the world uses.
2:32 you missed this...😂
@@samarth.suthar I didn’t get it. What was missed at 2:32?
“What about a trillion dollars?”
*attaches camera to head*
*takes off shoes*
*starts wading into the sea*
Climbs into rocket
Sets autonavigation to Neptune
Turns on cryosleep chamber
Big Brain INTENSIFIES 🧠
@der Führer I agree but r/wooosh
Drive around the equalizer 2.6 times
@@kenneth5355 how is this a woosh? This is just adding context to a joke
"How fast are we driving right now?"
"About a billion dollars an hour."
Sounds like imperial system of units
@@DanioniCampiel *freedom units
*insert meet the heavy joke*
@@dremdram5496
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a TF2 reference.
70 miles an hour, BRUH LITERALLY THE SPEED LIMIT
This is the perfect representation of the disparity of wealth. I could live VERY comfortably for 10-20 years off of a million or 2. The difference between that and a billion is inconceivable almost.
One thousand times difference is completely inconceivable to us humans
Someone in Africa could live off 1000 dollars for 10-20 years.
And not once did you stop and think "why is half of my income getting taken by the government"
Nope.
I'll bet your solution is "more gubmint will save us!"
@@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916 The solution is more like the government not wasting more money on "" self defense"
@@Owen-zm6sq The US government sends and spend hundreds of billions of dollars on outside interests for and with other countries.
Keep voting for the same people though, maybe one day you'll figure it out.
Am I the only one who wishes this could be Tom Scott making casual conversation and rambling about random money and quantity facts for an hour in the car?
Billy Stevens Nope, not at all
nope, you're not the only one.I'd be talking to myself a lot😂
I clicked through at/ to various points expecting precisely this.
thats what I was hoping for too
im honestly disappointed that isnt what this was. but also disappointed in myself that id expect that of him😂 But come on that would be so fun and informative!
it's MY sleepover and I get to choose the movie.
but we always watch "A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip"
:DDD
@@JacquesSnacques deal with it lmao
Hahaha
This is a great movie ,I highly recommend this one.
Fun fact this is how they calculate price of a journey in NYC cabs!
Why does this not have more likes
BAHAHSH
Super underrated comment, 8/10
@@kaseybennett7415 9×e out of 10
@@CorbinDioxide Not everybody in the world knows how expensive NYC taxis are
This is a literal work of art - it manages to be simultaneously both very boring and very interesting at the same time…nothing else manages to capture both ends of the spectrum quite so eloquently!!!
I found this quite therapeutic and it helped me drift off to sleep. Unfortunately I was supposed to be working at the time.
Working as a bus driver
i tried using it to go to sleep, but the gps lady keeps interrupting my slumber
@@bufanpxl8r 🙂
Hey so are u still keeping look on the nuclear reacto- bro? BRO! BRO ITS GONA EXPLO-
@@FOXEVY same energy as watch yo jet
The money counter disappearing as you get in the car at 1:29 is so smooth
damnnnn good catch!
Thats actually a sick detail
dam impressive
Didnt notice that but thats really cool
Woah didn't notice that at all
Alternate Title: _"You misbehaved at the shop and now your disapproving father is driving you home in awkward silence" ASMR_
Dear god... its too relatable...
WAHAHAHHAAHHAH
POV: "you made a shooting threat and your disapproving father is driving you home after the evaluation by the psychiatrist"
Dear god
pov: ur mum decides to take you back home because you kept begging for that one robux card in toys r us
Now imagine spending 42 of these and only getting Twitter in exchange.
ikr? imagine paying 42 billion for a app when its free on the app store.
And then ruining the thing you paid for at an obscene price.
Recording this must have felt like taking a driving test.
Fun story: when I took my driving test I was almost hit by a UPS truck
Still passed because it wasn’t my fault, but still terrifying
@@legendaryhusky1772 Indeed. I can't immagine how terrifying it could be. Is everyone ok now?
@@lelledale3319 Almost being the operative word.
@@mikaeljensen4399 i got hit by a car
UA-camr: drives properly and safely
Bracken Dawson: you did that on purpose for your video, you’re not a good driver.
"Hey, Tom, how much is a billion dollars?"
"Sure, get in."
Sounds like I'm being abducted
“Hop in, we’re driving a billion dollars”
Sounds like a MrBeast video
Free uber to the beach
*angry parents typing*
So the difference between a million and a billion is, roughly, a billion.
An apt summary
@@Ida-xe8pg .... It was a joke. They also said roughly. 999 million is ROUGHLY one billion.
Ah yes, the m a h t m a t e h i o n
thanks, would've never known if it weren't for you
Amal yikes
One of the things this teaches me is that I am NOT ready to attempt driving in a country that drives on the left side of the road. I had a couple of moments of panic-by-proxy when you turned into what felt to me like a lane of oncoming traffic.
Also, I'm amazed at just how many wind turbines are casually dotting the landscape. I never realized how big wind power was in Britain.
Omgggg same here, I thought he was gonna get into a crash so many times🤣
Oh boy you would love india
Tom's car: moves 5 inches
My paycheck: hey there
You earn a 127$?
@@sangay9361 Depends on where you work and for how many hours
@@sangay9361 math 100
U earn $1162.79?
@@ronansundjojo3143 5 inches is 5 inches, doesn't matter if moved by a car or anything else
An excellent visualisation of the insane cost of petrol in the UK.
Oh boy
@@metalswifty23 oh boy indeed. Rest in peace petrol prices
This ages like a fine wine
US Healthcare
@@polasboek £1.30 per litre if you're very lucky, nearer £1.40 in most places & £1.50 in a few places
Can we all take a minute to appreciate that Tom didn't insult anyone on the road for a whole 1h trip ?
The miracle of editing
@@blueheartorangeheart3768 I'm not quite 1/2 way through listening to the drive and that isn't editing, that's proper silence. he's a driving hero for that.
Well if you aren't a tool, its not hard being nice or just forgiving
@@sykeassai everyone is insulting him
This is not the US
11:05 I like how the shutter speed lines up with the rotation of the tires on the car on the left for a moment
that's not shutter that's framerate
@@pliplopchopchop7744Tied to shutter speed. I forgot the regular rule if it's framerate being half or double shutter speed for ideal footage.
@@huntermitchell6335 The shutter speed has nothing to do with the appearance of motion of the wheels, though.
@@huntermitchell6335shutter speed is the time it takes for the image to be taken, framerate is the time in between 2 images being taken. Framerate is what is causing that
1:30 Can we just appreciate that slick transition of resetting the money counter?
I knew I couldn't be the only one to notice!
So slick
That's some movie magic.
@@Floedekage Like the moon landing
It’s true I was the sky
Taxi drivers calculating their price be like...
I was listening to some old Arctic Monkeys stuff yesterday, and by these prices, "High Green mate, via Hillsborough please!" would surely be at least sixty million US dollars... Good thing their music career took off, if they had to pay all that back.
If 1/4 mille equals 1million 250 miles is a billion? And Bezos is about 37,500 miles to your 1300 feet.
@@kylerobinson8913 wait no I'm dumb
Robert Faber red lights indicates doors are secured is a tune also I live near high green in Sheffield so it makes it even better that line
@@ivansime9127 It is one of the hidden gems on that album, it really is.
A million seconds is about 11 days and a billion seconds is about 31 years. Thankfully, Tom's video isn't that long!
A billion seconds? Can’t be that long it’s only a couple of seconds
gup gump r u stupid?
This gave me a better understanding than his entire hour video lmao
gup gump Actually its a billion
@@Ivoler239 Maybe they're being sarcastic.
I love Ryan Reynolds but he has no range. He is just himself in everything.
there's a really cool Patrick H Willems video about him and The Rock which I think explains him perfectly
Imagine if the “one-dimensional” thing in this video was time, instead of space, so we just have Tom stare awkwardly into a camera for however long a time, and then a thousand times longer.
Someone in the comments mentioned 11 days for million seconds and 31 years for a billion
I think I remember someone saying 1 million in seconds is 11 days - 1 billion seconds would be 31 years of staring into a camera!
$1 million = 1 second.
$1 billion = 16 minutes, 40 seconds.
$186 billion (Jeff Bezos' net worth) = 2 days, 3 hours, and 40 minutes.
1 dollar = one milli second
@@jadonskatoff4726 Actually no, $1,000 dollars would be 1 millisecond. $1 would be 1 microsecond (0.000001 second).
Imagine this was a taxi.
Tom: makes one wrong turn
This little manoeuvre is going to cost us $230,000
manoeuvre
@@azio301 manoeuvre is maneuver for british
@@nashaguirre8536 fun fact in french. Maneuvre is also maneuvre
Space missions in a nutshell
@@TheArmin7471 Interstellar in a nut shell
The calming sounds of a competent driver that uses indicators!
Is it really that uncommon around the world that it gets to be mentioned this much in the comments? Where I live, people mostly use turn signals.
@ it is, live in Indonesia, can confirm
@ Not here in the US. But is that any wonder considering how stupid the US is being about masks right now?
@ it is, live in Italy, can confirm
@@Anankin12 about italian drivers... ;) it is utter mayhem over there.
There is this old joke about the taxi driver smashing through intersections with a red light, and stopping on ones where it is green, because someone might run the red light.
what I love mostly about this video is that the million dollar walk was so short that it isn't even mentioned in the chapters and the video is still over an hour long.
"We wan't longer Tom Scott videos"
"No wait, not like that"
next:"Visualising a trillion..."
... on foot.
wan't
More space bread
Is wan't the waluigitive negative of WAH?
*want
I just have "Michael Says Prime Numbers for 3 Hours" as a companion audio source to this so it sounds like he's (poorly) guessing how many dollars its been already
thank you for this gift
I have been blessed with this information
i wish you have a great day, internet stranger
Watching this now amazing
the guesses are a bit less poor when you set the driving video to 0.25x speed and the prime numbers to 2x speed xD I'm trying to see if Michael will kind of keep pace with Tom this way
Nobody:
Tom Scott: what's the longest single take I can get away with?
One take!
That would be the garlic bread one
"How long was your longest take on youtube?"
"About one billion dollars, give or take..."
Never forget the shredder livestream over on the Matt and Tom channel. 4 or so hours
would have been way funnier if you just got rid of the "nobody:"
my unpopular opinion is that people complain about superhero films having too many cameos and stuff but that actually makes them more like the comics where characters will just appear for a single panel sometimes
Ah yes, a video where we can silently judge Tom's driving ability.
ahah you know
Hes a bit too slow
Are we just gonna ignore that the car's automatic?
@@noahcalland8316 yes? Because most cars are automatic these days?
@@potatohunter7751 not in the UK they aren't
"Dad, when are we finally there?"
"Just another 50 million dollars."
Ah yes, a new geometric system. Imperial, metric, and now, money.
But can we at least get ICEREAAAM?!
No son it's too expensive.
*Gets pulled over*
"Officer, I was just going $50,000 a second!"
50 million dollars??!! Who you think you kidnap, Chelsea Clinton??
Nice
i assumed you'd just be like "imagine me doing that 1000 times..." but then you went to the car, and i imidiatly stopped and checked how long this video was.
well done.
Since a car is about 10x faster than walking, it would take about a 100 times longer, which checks out sicne the vid is 80 minutes.
Imagine Tom walking a billion dollars!
I'd did the same thing and then immediately went to read the comments while the rest played!
What's more astonishing is Tom's ability to remain silent the whole time. I'd be either giving a lecture to an imaginary audience, arguing with myself, or whistling the theme tune to the antiques road show.
"I walked a million dollars in about a minute, so how long should it take?" *checks video length* oh god
A billion is 1000 million's so 1000 minutes walking so 16.6 hours at 3.5 miles per hour gets 58 miles.
@@JAMDJAMD meth
@@JAMDJAMD Quick Math
@@buttermanw I'm gonna start saying that. Whenever someone says equations stuff "meth". Of course, I nearly wrote this comment as "I'm going to start using that" but, uh, that would conjure up a much different mental image than I was going for.
@@ollie2111 cool dude
The million vs billion comparison i like most is time. A million seconds is less than 2 weeks, a billion seconds is over 30 years
Woah, thats a good comparison as well
Its good but ill stick to this one, going back to numbers to measure numbers isnt nearly as interesting as this
Pekee they’re both time analogies
@@Schixotica not really. If this video was a time analogy, the length of the video would be 1 minute + 1000 minutes = about 16 hours. While I agree that they are both ultimately still using "numbers to measure numbers", I do agree with Pekee that this is a more compelling experience of what a billion is. (If people watch the whole video). Bcos ppl do intuitively understand the vast difference between the speed of a brisk walk for a minute and driving for an hour by watching it. 2 weeks and 30 years still runs into a bit of the issue of intuitively feeling the difference as the passage of time feels different for different ppl especially if they have different ages. 30 years is a blur to an older person but can feel like a millenia to a kid
But yea, anyway, opinions and preferences. Don't believe there's an objective end all argument to be had on which is "the best" way to represent the difference of a million and a billion
Next Tom Scott video will be 30 years long
Hour drive with no music, talk radio or swearing at other drivers. You're a spartan, Tom.
I can't tell you how good it is to see someone using "spartan" to describe "simple" for once, rather than to idolize some warrior-cult - as is wont on yt -.
Or it’s edited
Or commercials!
@@BimpytheWimpyShrimpy honestly in this case both would work.
@@ricebeansrockroll882 No I don't see that at all. I'm referring to the Oxford English dictionary definition. In the UK, that's the main definition.
My unpopular film opinion is that Wonka (2023) is better than the Gene Wilder original
1 million seconds = 11 days
1 billion seconds = 31 years
1 trillion seconds = 31710 years
What i use to put large amounts of money in to perspective
yellowisthemellow isn’t capitalism great
@@yellowisthemellow and Bill Gates?
@@yellowisthemellow unless jeff bezos is some secret vampire and is actually 31 thousand years old
Did the math, kinda off. 1 day = 86400, 1 mil/ 86400 = 11,57 which rounds up so should be = 12 days, then to make it more precise use the exact number from before to mutliply by a 1000 to get 11574 days (rounded) which translates to 11574/365,25 = 31,6879 years which rounds up to 32, but use the exact number again and mutliply by 1000 to get 31688 years. (rounded again)
So in total:
1 mil seconds = 12 days (rounded up)
1 bil seconds = 32 years (rounded up)
1 tril seconds = 31688 years (rounded up)
After I did the math and spent like 5 min on typing this I realised it was completly useless but I am still gonna post it because I spent time on it ;-;
this comment destroyed this video's whole career
About to fall asleep after a long day, just realizing road trip noises are soothing.
*IN A QUARTER MILE TURN RIGHT*
Omfg I was thibking the same thing, I was about to go to bed when I saw this, I'd leave it on for 10hrs if it didn't have the satnav yelling
Like when you listen to soothing music on Spotify and suddenly a super-loud ad starts playing.
This is my favourite comparison: a million seconds is 11 days. A billion seconds is 33 years!!!
isnt it ~31.5 years
Sweet i've made it to over 1 billion seconds!
@@neth77 Nice. I'm nearly halfway there.
A million dollars every 11 days and you only run out in 33 years. Insane
Then jeff bezos is 5,874 years
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. XD
You passed my old schools, the old shops I used to go to and some of my friends' houses. Lovely
That money clock transition when getting into the car is underrated af
Yes
Straight up
Frfr
It's really underrated
mickobee its so smooth nobody noticed hahaha
3:20 ”head east towards Cooke road, head west towards Cooke road"
One of those is going to take a lot longer than the other.
I hate how hard I laughed at this
That's how you visualize Bezos's net worth.
Probably turning left went from heading south east to heading south west.
it then gives up completely and tells him to turn left 🤣
We are all cooke road on this blessed day.
1:26 so we not gonna talk about how cleanly the counter disappeared
yes
It's so clean I didn't notice until I saw this comment.
Oh my god, that's genius. Thank you for pointing out that well done piece of editing there. I wouldn't have noticed it otherwise. That was awesome.
@@ollie2111 Why are you using such good grammar on every comment I see you in
@@Akhimed hahaha because I like to use good good grammar and too many words.
Anybody who believes that a billion dollars is a reasonable amount for a human being to possess should have to sit through this.
At .25x speed.
They should watch the process of earning a billion pounds (or dollars) at a rate of £1 (or $1) per second. That's £300 (or $300...) in 5 minutes.
It'd take more than 3 decades to get to 1 billion.
Or, quit cockwatching and realize its their money and not anyones right to determine how much someone should own.
There is no unreasonable amount of money for one person to possess. It's none of your damn business how much someone else earns. They provide thousands of jobs and created billions worth of goods that you use daily thanks to them. If you are poor in America, it is your fault for not taking advantage like all those you envy.
Nobody has 1 billion dollars though. I hate the "nEt wOrth" commie lie
*Cop pulls you over*
Do you know how many $ per hour you were going?
Underrated 😂
Americans will measure with anything except the metric system
DeluxeTux5249 fax 😂
Nice one
@@DTux5249 he's british
The way that the money counter disappears behind the car door at 1:30 made my day like 10-100% better
It was a nice touch.
Tom Scott is really serious about his channel
thank you for letting me notice, it really made my day even tho it's kinda late where I live
Made my day and we've oh got 40mins left
Logically, 10-100% = -90%, so now your day is only 1/10 as good as it was before.
I like time comparison:
1 million seconds = 11.5 days
1 billion seconds = 31.5 years
:)
GURken Wow! 😳
Definitely prefer using seconds to help people grasp the difference between million (11.5 days), billion (31 years 8 months ~5 days), and trillion (basically 31,689 years).
It's literally just multiplying by a 1000, except the time system is not decimal, so it looks kinda weird to us.
I prefer this comparison. Driving for an hour as a concept doesn't seem like much. But 31 years compared to 11 days seems insane.
This video is dated by the petrol station on the entrance into margate (1:09:52) when the petrol was only £1.14 a litre. As of today (01/07/22) that petrol station now charges £1.94 per litre! Very fun video. I live fairly close to the start point and make that same journey quite regularly, so it was interesting seeing Tom doing it.
"What's the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars?
About a billion dollars."
Only 99.9% of a billion dollars really
You need to spend 10k per day for 100d to spend 1m, but you need to spend 1b in a day to spend 1b
Jérémy Larouche You could also spend 1m a day to spend 1m.....
@@spam9118 hence "about" a billion dollars.
So you sayin' that a million dollars is nothin'?
me: *checks bank account*
bank account: $47.19
me: well thats a step in the right direction
That’s not even a step.
Ha
U be stepping 4.719cm each time
$1000 is approximately 8 inches. a step is 2 or 3 thousand dollars
That’s very clever. I appreciate that. Very funny
Feels weird watching someone drive almost directly past my house, feel like I should have waved.
damn
same! very strange to watch him go down a road i've been on so frequently but take the wrong exit.
It be like that
Do you guys almost all live in houses? I didn't see many apartments in the video. Are apartments rare in UK? I am from India btw
@@soumyaneelmanna3097 apartments are rare in Europe except in the cities. Even in cities, it's quite a recent phenomenon (1-2 decades max) due to overcrowding.
Can we all just take a second to appreciate that Tom just did over an hour of uncut video of him driving in silence to Margate JUST to try and give us a different perspective on million vs billion?!?!
Bravo my friend 👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏
"Dear diary.
Went to the beach today. Some guy walked past telling his camera that if you want a trillion dollars, you need to fly a 747 for four days."
I wouldn't mind doing that.
That is, flying in one. Not piloting one. I don't have the necessary experience for that.
If piloting was that lucrative, I'd go to pilot school
LMAO!
5 days*
787 and 5 days
Timestamps for each order of magnitude (ten to the power of x) for the driving:
10^0 (one): 2:18
10^1 (ten): 2:18
10^2 (a hundred): 2:18
10^3 (a thousand): 2:18
10^4 (ten thousand): 2:18
10^5 (a hundred thousand): 2:22
10^6 (a million): 2:50
10^7 (ten million): 6:17
10^8 (a hundred million): 12:36
10^9 (a billion): 1:17:14
Honestly that is such a great tl;dw for this video
I thought 10^0=0
@@annabelholland anything to the power of 0 = 1
If the speed was constant, the time would mean so much more
Imagine if his velocity was constant the whole time.
The best visualisation of a truly staggering amount of money to date.
Fantastic video as always Mr Scott, albeit a missed opportunity to title the video: "The Billion Dollar Road to Margate." 😆
h
hey aren't you that guy
Hi Dave in Japan
anyone else read this in his voice
No way Chris would watch an English guy
I think Samuel L Jackson is massively overrated
Tom: "How long can it take to get to a billion?"
Me: *checks video length* "uh oh"
Ahyup. That's the wham moment.
Didnt see the length until i just read this :D
Bruh SAME I WASN'T READY FOR THE VID LENGTH
Now to get to Jeff Bezos level rich, watch this video 187 more times.
@@TheEvanAndrews To put this perspective into perspective.
This would take you about ten days.
Without breaks, sleep, or anything.
"The difference between one million dollars and one billion dollars is about one billion dollars"
+-1‰
@@ErilynOfAnachronos Not a symbol you see very often.
@@ErilynOfAnachronos 0.1% 🙂
@@markreynolds1436 ‰ is per mille
You are about 100% correct.
I'm a little embarrassed I never realized how big the distance between a million and a billion is. I thought I realized it, but I really didn't.
Same here.
i thought it was 1k times
@@godspeedhero3671 It is amazing in time as well.
A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years.
Billion = million X 1000 just like a million = thousand X 1000
@@blackbed5108 it is
Tom is really going for that silent road ASMR market.
This gives an entirely new meaning to Dollar per Hour
Now this is a clever comment
Underrated comment
IQ 1 Billion
No America. NO!!!
That comment made my day.
You have NO idea how much I was hoping Tom would get to his destination, and there would be Matt, sitting on a park bench, waiting for him...
I'm glad I didn't think of this before I started watching this, because that would have been quite an anxious journey.
Who's matt?
Jucci Drugs oh no...
and then they'd kiss
"Hi, I'm Matt." "And I'm Tom." "And this is a billion dollars."
At least once a week i wake up and this video is playing
Turn off Autoplay smh
You're Lucky To Be Selected By The UA-cam God To Watch This Video.
Thats, ... why I'm here
No one asked
same
This video is incredible! Simply mind-blowing. I couldn't believe my eyes as I was watching, yet the facts can't be disputed!
It's possible to have a sunny day with clear, blue skies in England!
I fell asleep, and woke up to this video still not finished playing. I now have a clear picture of how different a million and billion is.
Did ya have a nice nap :3?
@@the-anhpham3364 :4
i think they fell asleep again
@@StrayFei drats
Literally me just now lmao
This is torture. I’m riding in a car with Tom Scott and I can’t talk to him! I have so many things to chat about!
POV: You're in a car with Tom Scott but the dialogue options won't load
all you have is
...
say nothing
ignore him
@@crazycsiw6404 tom scott simulator but ur internet is bad
How it feels when a speed runner gets an unskipable cut scene.
Yes
Yes especially if it’s wr pace
non-skippable*
@@DarkJak unskippable
@@awatermelone9436 I stand non-corrected.
Within a minute or two he exceeds what I'm expected to make during my life time. Yet through the entire video he only makes a fraction of what my country throws away each week.
*Gets pulled over*
Officer: "Do you know how fast you were going back there?"
Tom: "About a million dollars a minute?"
Officer: *Confused look on face*
It was an average speed of 16.7 million dollars per minute, with some of the higher speed sections being closer to 20 million a minute.
@@The18107j i t s a j o k e
@@genericusername8494 i t s a l e a r n i n g e x p e r i e n c e
Arresting reason: trying to bribe a police officer.
MineVR so his average speed was around 68mph
I've heard an interesting comparison of those values on an example of time. One million seconds is over 11 days and one billion seconds is about 32 years xD
Where's your video?.I checked your channel, but it's not there. Is it still uploading?
@@WhiteUnicorn82 it takes one billion seconds to upload.
@@pierQRzt180 Perfect Answer. Thanks. I'll be back in a few moments to check his channel.
One Million Seconds: 11 Days
One Billion Second: 11,680 Days
Imagine someone saying, "Oh, we're going about 32 years per hour."
Tom Scott: "shouldn`t take that long right? "
me looking at the video still beeing over one hour:" oh boy"
I thought this was going to be a few minutes long.
I think if I didn’t see this comment I would’ve watched the whole thing not realizing it was an hour 😂
It's also crazy to think that the vast majority of wealth is stored and will never really be used while more than half the people on earth live on less than $5 per day.
Thanks for the shoutout Tom, and you're absolutely right! I 100% agree about the difficulty of imagining volume verses area. In fact I'm trying to work that into my next video right now! This video just gave me extra incentive!
Hi Wren! I love your guys work over at Corridor! You and Tom should get together and do a collab sometime!
I knew there was gonna be a shout-out to either Wren or Corridor Crew when I saw the title
Tom went one dimension better and didn't even deal in area, only distance.
Hi Wren! I love Corridor and Corridor Crew's videos and I love your enthusiasm👍
Scale is also a huge factor to visualize things. Using something so small and very fast travel really make this work so well. Volume comparisons can work in a reasonable scale, like how many Toyota Corolla interiors fit in an Olympic swimming pool (almost 800). Imagining how many times the interior volume of Bill Gates's house would fit inside the relatively nearby Mt. Rainier, not so much (probably about 7.5 million).
"How far away are we?"
"About $2,000,000,000, give or take..."
"someone used the imperial system!"
We will Measure with anything but the metric system
The monetary system of measurement, my favourite!
Tom: "How long will it take to drive to a billion dollars?"
Me: checks the time remaining of the video..."Hooboy, We're goin on a road trip!"
This is what I did, and I had the same reaction
Yup now all we need is a visual demonstration between a young person calling something a billion and an old person from the UK that grew up with the long scale. Probably best to move on from 1 dollar bills for that though, it'd take a while to do that especially for the long scale billion.
I was like "Car, instead of walking.. im guessing maybe 10-15-20 minutes?" saw the video timer then... went "Jesus..."
@@extrastuff9463 oof, long scale, he's just demonstrated a milliard dollars, a billion would take forever (edit: not literally, but the video would be 41+ days long)
Fun fact, a lot of countries still use the long scale. I live in the Netherlands and we call your billion a ‘miljard’. And a billionaire a ‘miljardair’ ;)
I love how the GPS immediately just shows you that getting a billion dollars is impossible, since you need to go both east and west at the same time to reach it :D
Taxi driver: We should calculate the fare like this
*intense sweating
Me: you already do in London.
TAKE MY MONEY
😂😂😂 that got me dead 😂😂😂
Jesus Christ
I just want to acknowledge how smoothly the money clock was cropped off by the door frame when you entered the car in the beginning
The sky works great as a "green" screen.
@@Ktulu789 It was simply masked by the door. The sky isn't working as a green screen because the overlay of the $ amount is over Tom's head quite often.
nice profile pic
So smooth i hadn't even noticed.
Nice touch
Officer: Where you headed?
Tom: To a billion dollars.
Do you know how fast you were going?
Oh, about the US defense budget.
username checks out
@@davidgustavsson4000 a thousandth of the US defense budget*
username checks out
*dispatch, I'm gonna need some backup on this one*
Sometimes I fall asleep to youtube.
100% of the times I wake up to this.
No one gonna talk about how there are no ads in this hour long video
👍🏻 this is what i call a extra like
didnt even realise how long the video was til i read this
wow
Good name.
There's an ad right at the end of the video, but certainly no midroll ads. Yet. UA-cam might not be satisfied with the amount of ads here soon enough.
this distance and gps system together had a .05% error. thats kind of amazing
Potentially even less too as when calculating the distance, the extra distance from changing lanes probably wasn't factored in...
... or, the extra distance was factored in because it's Tom, which makes it even more ridiculous
Uh that's 500 grands
Officer: "Sir do you know why i pulled you over? Do you know how fast you were going back there?"
Tom: "about a billion dollars an hour, give or take"
100 kph
The script in the beginning is so brilliant. Quite a complicated concept explained so effortlessly.
“Lets drive to a billion dollars” *Drives to Bill Gates’ house*
You'd need to watch this video over 118 times end to end before getting to his house.
@@celt67 which is about how much money bill gates has
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Tom Scott live in England? Which is worth like a 6 hour airplane trip
yes
@Sam Erens math
2:20 Taxi meter top right.
"Okay, you can drop me off here"
- "You sure? We haven't left the driveway yet"
"Nah I'm good"
When I was a kid my father explained it to me like this.
If you have $1,000,000 dollars and you spend 1,000 dollars a day, in 3 years you'll be broke.
If you have $1,000,000,000 dollars and spend 1,000 dollars a day, it will take 3,000 years to go broke.
Damn that's a good analogy
1000 times bigger
I remember that one: the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.