Simulation shows what 100 billion dollars in cash looks like as people say it's 'hard to comprehend'

When it comes to the grand amounts of money, it can be hard to understand just how much that is in real terms, and even harder to picture what that looks like in cash.

Most people just want to make sure they have enough cash to cover their bills and have stuff left over to enjoy life.

But a simulation that has been circulating on social media for the past few months has tried to break down what $100 billion would look like if it was stacked in $100 bills.

And in case you didn’t know, since a billion is such a big number, hundreds of stacks of bills takes up a surprising amount of space.

The video, originally shared on Instagram by the RED SIDE YouTube page, has left many people scratching their heads when they understand how much money is truly circulating around the world.

The video begins by showing a singular $100 bill on a patch of grass, next to a thicker stack, numbered as being $10,000.

This presentation continues as it begins to scroll to the side, occasionally showing a person to contextualize how much money is being shown.

$1 trillion appears to be a stack the size of a factory building, while $1 quadrillion dwarfs most skyscrapers.

Many Reddit users also remarked they were surprised they couldn’t accurately predict the size of the large figure.

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“Humans naturally have a hard time comprehending the actual difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion,” one user wrote.

“This is a cool video. I sometimes tell people that a billion dollars in 100 dollar bills would weigh 22,000 lbs but this I think says even more. People can't comprehend numbers that big,” another added.

“So...Jeff Bezos' stack of cash is bigger than my apartment...ok....cool. Cool cool cool,” joked one user.

Other users noted that the background begins to change as the viewer is seen larger sums of money. Going from a bright green grassland area to a destroyed and derelict city.

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“Was I the only one who noticed it started out in a peaceful grassy field and ended in a post apocalyptic wasteland?” one person commented.

“When corporate greed leads to our planet's destruction, this is what the post apocalypse will actually look like,” added another.

“My compliments on the choice of the background. Nothing shows better the trail of destruction that is left behind while collecting extreme wealth."

Topics: Reddit, Social Media, Money

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.