Dude Uses Rice to Show How Much a Billion Dollars Is, Then How Rich Jeff Bezos Is | NowThis

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• aaaantoine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Tuss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• bignuts700@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thats his net worth not how much money he has but bros still balling out of this universe since he owns tons of amazon stock

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• Vendul@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Weight the rice instead of counting

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  • SuperApples@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For efficiency, yes, for dramatic effect, no.

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  • DulyNoted@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, he clearly did. He even provided the final weight.

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  • Tuss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Weigh a small portion, count it, weigh a bigger portion and weigh to see if the weight/amount ratio stays about the same and then weigh the rest.

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• Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People really need to learn the difference betweent wealth/net-worth and money in bank.

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  • AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People really need to learn that you have almost infinite leverage and credit with net worth and wealth like Bezos. Man will never have to spend a cent of his own illiquid assets and will live like an emperor until he dies still.

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    • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Agreed. That’s included in the learning process about the differences of cash and wealth.

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  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    people need to learn that 99% of the populations health, education, freedom, and happiness is being actively sabotaged by 1% of the people. If that 1% was anyone but the rich and powerful, we’d have done something about it by now. You shilling for our continued subservience is pathetic.

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    • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Facts before feelings. Many of the people here downvoting me genuinely think people like Bezos or Musk are just sitting in a pile of cash choosing to hoard money instead of helping the less fortunate.

      Also - you’re part of the 1%. What are you doing to help the 99%?

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  • Serdan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why?

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• theGimpboy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My favorite of this type of video was years ago Reckful explaining 1 billion dollars www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J6BQDKiYyM

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  • marmo7ade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t even need a video.

    1 million seconds is 1 week.

    1 billion seconds is 30 years.

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  • auntbutters@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have a feeling this was “inspired” by that original video. Uses the same $100,000 increments + the example of how little you would notice buying a Lamborghini

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• nymwit@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nice!

  I was thinking halfway through, “man I’m good if you just want to weigh it…” but the counting out time lapse did add something.

  The one with rice I like was for exponential increases in size. Story: guy goes to the ruler of the kingdom and gets the ruler to agree to give him 1 grain of rice on the first square chess board, doubling every square so then two on the next, four on the next and so on. Runs the kingdom out of rice before he gets to the end of the chess board.

  Another good one for the 1000x scaling is time. People seem to be able to grasp time magnitudes better than money. 1 million seconds is 12 days. 1 billion seconds is 32 years. 1 Trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

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