• Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I love illustrations like this cause at a certain point numbers just don’t work for most people. Like yeah everybody knows $3 million is a lot money. But the average person doesn’t realize just how gigantic that number actually is in reference to the average person. You bump that up to $150 billion for someone like bezos and it’s literally an inconceivably big number. It all just falls under the category of “a lot” until you see stuff like this.

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      1 year ago

      It would be a nice experiment to go out in public and make it into a social experiment.

      Maybe have a glass box with Bezos amount of rice in it. Put a table cloth on top of it. Put a reasonable size pile of rice on the cloth lets say a tenth of his actual amount. And then ask people to pick up as many handfuls of rice they think Bezos has compared to the single $100k piece of rice. Then show them how utterly wrong they were.