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[โ€“] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

It works so much better when you use all the zeroes. Makes it easier to compare.

  • 290,000,000,000 dollar net worth
  • 10,000,000 dollar penthouse
  • 120,000,000 dollar met gala
  • 500,000,000 dollar yacht
  • 600,000 workers

With his net worth, he could give every one of those workers $100,000 and still have ~80% of his net worth.

[โ€“] Womble@piefed.world 1 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

I kinda agree, but I think writing all the zeros makes them all blend together into "big numbers". Better IMO is to refuse to use billion and just write in numbers of millions. People know one million is a very large amount of money so seeing that Bezos has net worth of 290,000 million and so can easily drop 10 million on a fashion party the same way a regular person can drop 10 on some fast food.