He thinks that any criticism of capitalism is a conspiracy theory, and is thus not accurate. For example if you think the legislature obeys the rich and not the public.
Even if he saw literally everyone in India, that's nowhere near a billion dollars. Money has severe diminishing marginal utility so he did in fact make a huge net improvement. A single rupee for a billion people is a very big deal indeed, but the human brain just rounds one rupee down to zero and a billion people down to a thousand.
Whoever told you that story is taking advantage of your difficulty with very small numbers and very large numbers.
I think most people agree with OP that it's not a 100% thing. Some people just signed up long ago, or picked a big instance.
I would assume they're speaking literally.