Nigerian Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti, the youngest son of Fela Kuti, has gone viral after arguing that it’s practically impossible for an individual to spend $1 billion within a lifetime.
Speaking on the Selah Meditate podcast, Kuti said the human brain isn’t built to grasp the scale of billion-dollar fortunes. He noted that people often throw around figures like “13 billion naira” without understanding what that really means.
“You cannot finish one Billion dollars in this lifetime. I go buy something and they say this one is worth 13 Billion naira, 12 Billion naira,”
“The human brain did not evolve to calculate huge figures. One million seconds is 11 days, one billion seconds is 11,000 days which is 37 years. If you have one Billion dollars, if you like buy private jets, anything you buy, the money will not finish,” he said.