Back in the day, a local New York City humor magazine decided to find the cheapest rich person in New York.
They set up a bank account and mailed a bunch of rich people a check for about $2.50. Half didn't bother to cash it, and were eliminated.
They kept lowering the amount, until it was 13 cents. Only Donald Trump and an arms dealer cashed a check worth a dime and three pennies.
They should have kept going until the arms dealer stopped cashing checks.
A banana still costs $10 for everyone
Where tf do you live that a banana is $10?
They probably live in the Bananas Stand.
There's always money in the Banana Stand.
I burned the banana stand down for the insurance money.
Why would you do that?! How much clearer can I say, there’s always money in the banana stand!!!
"NO TOUCHING!!"
NO TOUCHING!!
It's a pretty famous joke from the old show 'Arrested Development.' A rich matron asks 'how much can a banana cost? $10?'
I'm bracing for all the memes when bananas actually cost ten bucks soon.
I read/watch a lot of old mysteries. Up until about 1980, it's common for writers to put exact amounts of money in the dialogue. They stopped doing that because something that seemed like a lot of money would eventually seem cheap. For instance, Jim Rockford's $200.00 a day plus expenses doesn't seem like a lot of money when minimum wage is $120.00 a day. Or the famous $5.00 milkshake in 'Pulp Fiction.'
In my own world.
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Whoosh?
I guess so lmao
TIL this quote was from this show. I always attributed to that time Michael Jackson was allowed to walk around in a closed grocery store for the "experience".
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It’s a meme from the show Arrested Development
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Oh we'll get there one day
Did you mean: $1000 to someone with 100M in their bank is like $1 to someone with 100k?
$1000 to someone with $100,000 is like $1,000,000 to someone with $100,000,000. To make your point you'd have to do it backwards: $1000 to someone with $100,000,000 is like $1 to someone with $100,000.
The way someone with $100,000,000 would perceive $1000 is how someone with $100,000 would perceive $1.
Yea, I rewrote it in a way that makes more sense.
You got it backwards of course
Except that's only how it works mathematically, not in practice due to human nature. Perceived value of money would be something really interesting to study as there's just so many variables of which wealth is one, but I'm not even sure it's the most important when compared to upbringinging, source of money (do you work for it, even if you're overpaid, vs winning the lottery/being a parasite like selling mineral rights or buying properties and getting a management company you're not involved in to rent them out etc.) and others
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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