• Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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      7 days ago

      Be that as it may, it’s a significant amount of money that will not be collected but will now trickle down… excuse me, I have a very hard time keeping a straight face hahaha

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      I think it’s the opposite. We’re all used to “a billion” now, even thought we can’t really concieve of it the way we can, say $100. But a trillion is just space money. Just make it a gazillion.

      500 Billion has real competitive traction - people are billionaires, this is more than them, etc. A trillion is something you have nanoparticles of, something very small.

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        “Billion”, sadly, is a term that nowadays conjures an individual human or corporate level figure.

        “Trillion” is an economy level figure and suitably conjures an idea of how fucked up you all are.

        IMHO.

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          yup. especially we like our ancestors for quite some time back have only dealt in thousands back when the richest dealt in millions.

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      it’s the direction the figure is no-doubt going. in six weeks, that estimate will be a lot higher.

      ‘half a trillion’ now is a very fair choice of wording.