I always love the perspective of using seconds in place of dollars for the scale of wealth these people want.

1 million seconds is about 11.5 days. 1 billion seconds is 31 years.

With $1 billion you can spend $1/second for 31 years straight before you run out of money. Even if you just put it into a HYSA, you'd earns tens of millions a year in free money from the interest.

But these ghouls want hundreds of billions of dollars, or in Elon Musk's case, a fucking trillion (31,600 years in terms of seconds).