This website is making the rounds in a few of my circles, and it frustrates me. Numbers ending in "-illion" and require context, but visualizations comparing giant things to other giant things seem unproductive or counterproductive. Visualizing the size of a stack of $100 bills representing "US unfunded liabilities" is meaningless without a similar
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Umm... what?
Speak for yourself, honky. I've never made more than $20k in a year in my entire life, and I'm doing better than most folks back home. I do not own a home; neither do my parents. My car is paid off. $47K is a staggering sum that would pay off all of my extant debt, with plenty left over.
The SF Bayarrhea is not the entire US.
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I think it's safer to compare that to 47k$ in credit card debt, not 47k$ in debt on real estate that we own.
If everyone in the US had $50k of credit card debt, and was spending more debt faster than they paid the existing ones, and were trying to get their credit limit extended...
...that feels like a more accurate analogy.
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Definitely. Why $100 bills? Why not $1 bills or pennies or gold bars?
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