Now adjust for inflation. The comic was published in 1989. $1 then is $2.48 today. That’s a cumulative price increase of 148.22%, or an average price increase of 2.71% per year for 34 years. It is 4:30am, I am on a shuttle bus, and I am not showing any signs of going to sleep anytime soon.
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Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
$310,000,000,000,000,000. Quadrillion is a lot.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
He rounded down the number for some reason. This is how much money Scrooge McDuck has, $315,576,000,000,000,000. That is with leap years included.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Okay what about inflation
samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months ago
$782,628,480,000,000,000 in today’s dollars.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
So that motherfucker has almost a quintillion dollars.
What the fuck did he do, conquer Ceres?
Vorticity@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The total of all world assets is somewhere in the realm of $500 trillion. So, McDuck owns around 2,000 times all of Earth’s assets combined.
samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Of course he also lives in a world with anthropomorphic animals, so it’s safe to assume it’s not our world.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Down with the duck; Ceres belongs to the belters, Beratna
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
You know, oddly enough, I just started watching The Expanse and it’s actually not all that bad of a show. At least they try to do zero-G right
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 months ago
Inflation is likely higher, since McDuck has way more of the cake than realistic.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
He be causing hyperinflation with that money
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
That man is single handedly funding the Disney cartoons universe
Belzebubulubu@mujico.org 8 months ago
They did the math.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And today specifically, they did the monster math.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It was a graveyard smath!
SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nov 1st?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It was still today until I did a sleep. Now it’s tomorrow.
takeda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, this could be done better and would still send a message without unnecessary exaggeration.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 8 months ago
Are you suggesting that Scrooge McDuck's net work is less than $310 quadrillion? Second question: how do you know?
WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bro, it’s a comic. They’re not trying to send a message, it’s supposed to be ridicilous.
wandermind@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I mean, THE main character traits of Scrooge McDuck are that he’s stingy and absolutely ludicrously filthy rich.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
being a billionaire is already filthy fucking rich.
let’s replace it with everyone’s most hated cunt, the Muskrat estimated networth at 225 billion.
let’s say he loses a million every minute, which is let’s be honest still a shitton of money, literally life-changing for at least 95% of the planet.
well at that rate of losses 1 million every minute
it would still take him 177 days to lose all his networth.
increase it to 1 million every hour, which is still a very good rate to be losing “money” and it takes him 29 years to lose it.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is a comic book. For children. Not an economics lesson.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It is a comic done for kids. There is no message, except entertaining them and selling comics.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
Lol nah, they absolutely have messages and have always had them.
No media can ever be there to have no message and only to entertain. They all have an underlying message whether it’s intentional or not because that is how all stories are made comic book or not.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d like to see you swim in a giant money bin with less than $310 quadrillion.
Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 8 months ago
It does get the message through though because it’s just about feelings not about some actual danger.
Gordon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Let’s see, you posted this about 19 hours ago, starting value was 315 with a bunch of zeros… yeah someone else can do the math, but I think our buddy scrooge will be just fine.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Quackdrillion, in this case.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s a ducking good joke.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s a ducking good joke.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
But not so good you have to tell it twice