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the debt (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months 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.