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This is how we should be selling redistribution (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

~~No. It’s a thousand. Which is closer to zero than a billion.~~

Edit: You’re talking absolute values so the difference is 999 million.

While I was talking ratios hence the ratio being 1:1000. My bad.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's the best way I've found to illustrate to regular people how fucking massive the wealth accumulation is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

If you count 1 number per second it takes TWO WEEKS to count to a million.

However, it would take 33 YEARS to count to 1 billion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

lol. I think your post shows just how hard it is to fathom a billion better than any numbers could.