• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    A thousandth of one percent is 1x10^-5, i.e. if your oligarch spent 10^9 (a billion) you would get 10.000 dollars (10^4) which I doubt would be enough to cover most major problems. (Or 100.000 dollars for that matter)

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      1 day ago

      10.000 dollars (10^4) which I doubt would be enough to cover most major problems

      For someone who’s poor? $10k would solve a lot of problems. Poor people already know how to stretch a dollar. Having 10k of them to stretch could go a long way.

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        6 hours ago

        It’s crazy because I haven’t had $10,000 anything approaching since I was 19 years old and living with my parents. $10,000 is simultaneously an unobtainable amount of money for me as well as something that wouldn’t really improve my day to day life. I could either use the money to pay off a quarter of my student loans or use it to get a car that starts properly and doesn’t have a leaky roof.