gravitas_deficiency comments on the debt

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Two things:

if you owe the bank $34,000, it’s your problem; if you owe the bank $34,000,000,000,000, it’s the bank’s problem.
its a big club, and you’re not in it.

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[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That's a lot of zeros, when written like that

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Yes, and it is the correct number of zeros to use. I find it helps to put things into scope. “Trillion” is an abstract magnitude to most people. Writing it out numerically makes it clear how absolutely enormous the number is.

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