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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I always phrase it like this:

A thousand seconds is a coffee break, a million is a vacation, a billion is a career and a trillion is over three hundred centuries.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    really. well i am not really having casual conversations with people involving conversion of multiples of ten to random units. but i guess americans will really do anything to avoid metric system 😂 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    You should try talking about wealth inequality with strangers more. Maybe we’ll get somewhere.

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