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Very few people want, need, or are even wishing for exactly one million dollars, and zero cents. '1 million dollars' is just a placeholder for 'enough money' that originated in a time long past.

It's a bias that's not hard to detect. If I examine my own thoughts, I find that 'millionaire' is almost synonymous with 'arbitrarily wealthy' while 'billionaire' and 'trillionaire' don't really hold meaning beyond the literal definition.




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