That’s my point. We (those of us that aren’t at least millionaires) don’t really differentiate in society between someone that has a million dollars and someone that has 10 million dollars; they’re both stuck in the “millionaires” tier.
So say you are making $50,000 a year, well it’s easy to see how you or someone like you could (theoretically) get to $100,000; that’s just the next tier up. And then it’s easy to imagine someone going from $100,000 to a million because that’s the next tier up again. But once you get there, people don’t tend to think of ten million as a tier and usually not a hundred million either. The next tier in our zeitgeist after million is billion.
So people tend to think of billion being kind of the same as going from $100,000 to $1,000,000. Hence the common disconnect about just how much more money a billionaire has than the common man.
I have a theory about this: We group money in magnitudes of tens up to a million but then jump up from 10x to 1,000x:
1
10
100
1,000
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
1,000,000,000
That’s a huge increase but our minds like patterns so we instinctively feel that a billion must be about 10x a million and not the 1,000x it really is, thus leading to huge inaccuracies.
100%. I wouldn’t even give all that information to my online pharmacist and I need some of those medications to survive.
Alleged prospective sex buyers in this scheme first had to respond to a survey and provide information online, including their driver’s license photos, their employer information, credit card information, and they often paid a monthly fee to be part of this.”
Wait, what? (͡•_ ͡• )
That should make the prosecutors jobs much easier.
Dictators never retire, they die.
Hold on, nobody tell me; I’m going to use my psychic gifts to ascertain the political leanings of this election interfering clerk.
Mmmmmmmmmmhmmmmmmm…it’s coming to me….I’m starting to see it more clearly….it starts with an……”R”? Yes….its “Repopulate”? Wait, no it’s “Republican”. It says the clerk who manipulated votes is a Republican.
I’m sure you’re all as surprised as me at this crazy turn of events.
Aw, makes me wish Dexter was real.
I couldn’t possibly answer for my crimes during a school night. I mean who would make sure our nanny takes the children to school? My butler? Please; how gauche.
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Fuck anyone who uses religion to excuse murder. The world would be a better place without your “gods”.
Oh look at Trumph pretending to give a shit about his offspring when we all know he’s going to pretend he hardly knows them the second they flip on him.
These types of people who knowingly commit crimes that can and do affect others’ health, purely in the pursuit of greed, should face the death penalty. I’d rather see the C-Suite assholes rot in jail than low level drug offenders.
Organized religion can get fucked along with all these deathmongers using “god” as an excuse to kill or harm others.
Ah, finally! I’ve been wanting a way to attempt to talk with people over a service whose basic functionality is spotty at best. I’m sure this functionality that no one asked for will be just what we haven’t been looking for.
Another brilliant checkers move on the 4D chessboard, by Elon!
Yeah if the party of misogyny can’t get its act together when voting for a man, you’d have to be delusional to think they’d elect a woman.
Getting real “I am the main character” vibes from this wretch.
I wish it was a life sentence but as poor of health as the dude looks, maybe it is.