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This is how we should be selling redistribution (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 days ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/peoplebluesky@lemmy.world

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[–] corroded@lemmy.world 148 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (19 children)

Mathematically, I think it's hard for people to truly understand the obscene wealth that some people have accumulated. 100 billion doesn't sound that different than 100 million.

100 million is magnitudes closer to ZERO than it is to 100 billion.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 92 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is roughly 1 billion.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 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.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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

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