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proof that the last zero on a number can buy a different legal system.

means people whose net worth clears ten zeros, mostly on paper, in assets nobody's actually forcing them to sell.

from from bi- (two) plus million, coined once fortunes started outrunning the word millionaire; the first official one was john d. rockefeller in 1916, when a billion dollars still sounded like typo.

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