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minus-squareSusurrus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·2 days agoIf you got 10 bucks for every million towards billionaires you’d actually be a millionaire. The ratio was more like a cent for every million.
minus-squarehuppakee@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·2 days agoI think they mean $999,990 goes to person A and $10 goes to person B. If you want to create one (1) millionaire that way you would need to spend $999,000,000,000. Imagine how that would look with 1 cent to every million. Are the two of you even talking about the same data? Maybe you spread the $10 over 1,000 people to get to that number of $0,01.
If you got 10 bucks for every million towards billionaires you’d actually be a millionaire. The ratio was more like a cent for every million.
I think they mean $999,990 goes to person A and $10 goes to person B.
If you want to create one (1) millionaire that way you would need to spend $999,000,000,000. Imagine how that would look with 1 cent to every million.
Are the two of you even talking about the same data? Maybe you spread the $10 over 1,000 people to get to that number of $0,01.