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So I live just down the road from Bentonville, Arkansas which is best known for Walmart. The Walton's are still probably one of the wealthiest families in the world and you don't have to do more than stick your head out the door around here to see something that one of them has had a hand in.
I think it's hard for most people to comprehend what being a billionaire, nevermind a multi-billionaire, is like. It's not just "rich." Depending on where you live in the States, you can have $2 million and be considered rich.
Billionaire rich is being so rich that you literally need a large team of people to manage all your assets. Billionaire rich is being able to personally fund art museums, medical schools, and all kinds of other vanity projects and it not even be a drop in the bucket because you make money faster than you can spend it.
There's a lot of American's that like to imagine that this will be them someday. But that's not possible because most of them don't have rich daddies to leave them a massive inheritance.
This old post lines it out very nicely:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/7n5cr6/redditor_thoroughly_explains_the_difference_in/