Comment on Dude Uses Rice to Show How Much a Billion Dollars Is, Then How Rich Jeff Bezos Is | NowThis
aaaantoine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a really good illustration of scale. The last time i saw a demo like this it used 3D rendered cubes. There’s something wonderful about using an actual, physical medium for this.
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love illustrations like this cause at a certain point numbers just don’t work for most people. Like yeah everybody knows $3 million is a lot money. But the average person doesn’t realize just how gigantic that number actually is in reference to the average person. You bump that up to $150 billion for someone like bezos and it’s literally an inconceivably big number. It all just falls under the category of “a lot” until you see stuff like this.
Tuss@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It would be a nice experiment to go out in public and make it into a social experiment.
Maybe have a glass box with Bezos amount of rice in it. Put a table cloth on top of it. Put a reasonable size pile of rice on the cloth lets say a tenth of his actual amount. And then ask people to pick up as many handfuls of rice they think Bezos has compared to the single $100k piece of rice. Then show them how utterly wrong they were.