I consider myself pretty good at getting a sense of scale from facts and figures, even when the reality is that it tends to get really hard over around 10,000 and break down over a million or so.
This infographic at visualeconomics really drives home how thoroughly it breaks down. I know $100 billion is really a lot of money. I know in my head that just 0.1% of that is $100 million, which is still a ridiculous amount of money. But I don't think I really knew it at a gut level until scrolling through that image. And it reminds me that there are probably a lot of other things where that's true.
On the flip side of things, this slide remains the worst infographic I have ever seen.
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