Juan Amaya has done hundreds of millions of dollars in cash business-fake dollars, that is.

Amaya runs Prop Movie Money, a business in Miami that makes look-alike bills for film and TV productions. His company's products have starred in the franchise and shows such as

Makers of prop money alter visual details such as Benjamin Franklin's portrait to prevent it from being seen as counterfeit currency. Still, the result is pretty convincing.

A million bucks doesn't look like much

Two shoeboxes-that is roughly how big $1 million in $100 bills is when stacked up, Amaya said.

He first learned how puny seven figures can seem when he and his co-workers started the company. They put $1 million of cash, in fake bills, on a table in the office as an inspiration for their new venture.

Amaya said.

He added that being around fake cash all the time made money a less taboo topic of conversation between him and his co-workers.

The majority of real dollars aren't physical, and we never get to touch much of what we spend. Money doesn't take up space the way it used to, its size and shape less prominent.

Amaya said he and some of his colleagues use their product as a visual aid while working on their personal budgets.

In Amaya's case, he and his fiancée set up stacks of prop money to visualize their monthly expenses, with piles representing groceries and rent.

he said.

The exercise has prodded Amaya to put more money into savings each month. When he saw the pile representing their bank accounts, he remembers thinking,

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If we were to head to our local Bank of America and ask for $936 million in ones - perhaps giving the branch a heads-up on our request, just as a courtesy - the result would be a stack of bills that soared more than 63 miles into the sky. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space, known as the Karman line, sits 62 miles above Earth's surface. So our stack of Trump penalties would extend 1.6 miles into space.

If we were instead to lay those bills end to end, they would wrap around the entire planet. And wrap around it again. And again. And then wrap around it nearly two-thirds of the way yet again.

Of course, you'd have a bit of a problem just moving the bills around. The total would weigh about as much as 2½ Boeing 747s fueled for takeoff.

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