$310,000,000,000,000,000. Quadrillion is a lot.
Scrooge mcduck discovers bankruptcy
Submitted 2 years ago by nave@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Quackdrillion, in this case.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s a ducking good joke.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
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.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 2 years ago
So that motherfucker has almost a quintillion dollars.
What the fuck did he do, conquer Ceres?
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 years ago
Inflation is likely higher, since McDuck has way more of the cake than realistic.
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
That man is single handedly funding the Disney cartoons universe
Belzebubulubu@mujico.org 2 years ago
They did the math.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 years ago
And today specifically, they did the monster math.
takeda@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yeah, this could be done better and would still send a message without unnecessary exaggeration.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 years ago
Are you suggesting that Scrooge McDuck's net work is less than $310 quadrillion? Second question: how do you know?
WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Bro, it’s a comic. They’re not trying to send a message, it’s supposed to be ridicilous.
wandermind@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
I mean, THE main character traits of Scrooge McDuck are that he’s stingy and absolutely ludicrously filthy rich.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It is a comic done for kids. There is no message, except entertaining them and selling comics.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’d like to see you swim in a giant money bin with less than $310 quadrillion.
Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 years ago
It does get the message through though because it’s just about feelings not about some actual danger.
Gordon@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The government is gonna feel bad for him and bail him out
ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Kind of appropriate as many of the super rich have no real concept of their wealth and what loss really is.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Oh no, how will he be able to swim in his coin vault if that happens?
tweeks@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Well, he has a position to uphold; what about future generations growing up with a broke Scrooge.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 years ago
What’s with the three circles on his face?
Black616Angel@feddit.de 2 years ago
That’s social commentary.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
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LEONHART@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
When Russ Hanneman dropped down to two commas.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I have a working theory that Donald Duck comics never got popular in the US because of the ever-present scathing critique of capitalism
snor10@lemm.ee 2 years ago
They’re not!? Colour me surprised!
Super popular in Sweden, at least when I grew up.
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Donald got comics in Sweden that characterized him completely differently than how he’s shown in the US. I think he’s a much better character there.
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I recall them being popular in Germany, too, but yeah, they never took off like that here in the US.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I can’t think of anyone I grew up with in America in the 80s who read Disney comics at all.
FedFer@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 years ago
In Italy, for some reason, Mickey Mouse comics (including a lot of Donald Duck stories) are SUPER popular, Donald’s depicted as always in debt, losing any job he can get and going on extreme life-threatening adventures with Scrooge just to get a cent off his uncle’s debt list, but nobody uses this to actually think that this might be a real world problem and brushes it off as an exaggeration. Are Italians (including me) blind?
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 years ago
The Duck Tales show where he’s the good guy did really well tho
snooggums@kbin.social 2 years ago
That's because he was shown to care about a few people he was related to without needing to give up his vast amount of wealth.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Funny thing is, I feel like the new Ducktales series is the closest TV representation of the comics-versions of the characters. They change some things (most crucially they give Huey, Dewey and Louie individual personality traits), but overall it really feels like watching the European comic books come to life. Scrooge is still too much of a good guy, where in the comics he’s often a kind of villain.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 years ago
That would sadly explain it. We only recently got out of the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire phase and only because we were basically forced to.