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The way someone with $100,000,000 would perceive $1000 is how someone with $100,000 would perceive $1.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

They should have kept going until the arms dealer stopped cashing checks.

[–] distantsounds 67 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A banana still costs $10 for everyone

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Where tf do you live that a banana is $10?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They probably live in the Bananas Stand.

There's always money in the Banana Stand.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I burned the banana stand down for the insurance money.

[–] jeffw 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would you do that?! How much clearer can I say, there’s always money in the banana stand!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

"NO TOUCHING!!"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's a pretty famous joke from the old show 'Arrested Development.' A rich matron asks 'how much can a banana cost? $10?'

[–] distantsounds 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Oh we'll get there one day

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did you mean: $1000 to someone with 100M in their bank is like $1 to someone with 100k?

[–] zkfcfbzr 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

$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.

[–] 3volver 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

You got it backwards of course

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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