Richard Branson thought 'we were going to lose everything' in pandemic

[Azz]

I doubt he’ll be getting any sympathy from everyday folk - he’s a billionaire!

Sir Richard Branson thought 'we were going to lose everything' in pandemic

From this post:

@Azz

Guest: A million seconds is 11 days - how many days is a billion seconds?

Joe: How many?

Guest: 31 years.

Joe: Jesus.

Guest: 11 days, to 31 ||expletive|| years. When someone tries to ||expletive|| say they understand what a billion is, you like have no ||expletive|| idea what a billion is. A billion is so beyond far away.

@Azz

And for those who want to know how much a trillion is (where there are now rumours some royal families actually have that much) it is 31,000 years!!!

[spitfire]

Thanks for facilitating Tubular Bells.

[Psmith]

I think in the old days a billion was a million millions but now it’s only a thousand million.It’s lost value.

[spitfire]

It’s certainly lost some impact.

[butterscotch]

Some related threads.

https://forum.over50schat.com/t/branson-bailout/61244

Virgin Orbit: Sir Richard Branson's rocket company cuts 85% of workforce

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See, yer only as good as your last Gig

and some info from Forbes

When he sold Virgin Records for $1 billion in 1992, Branson ran down London’s Ladbroke Grove crying, upset over parting with the business.

Branson suspended talks with Saudi Arabia over a proposed $1 billion investment into Virgin Galactic after the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

Richard Branson

[Cinderella]

He has got a bloody nerve.