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Scrooge mcduck discovers bankruptcy

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨nave@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • snor10@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’re not!? Colour me surprised!

      Super popular in Sweden, at least when I grew up.

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      • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I recall them being popular in Germany, too, but yeah, they never took off like that here in the US.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I can’t think of anyone I grew up with in America in the 80s who read Disney comics at all.

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    • FedFer@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Duck Tales show where he’s the good guy did really well tho

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      • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    $310,000,000,000,000,000. Quadrillion is a lot.

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    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Quackdrillion, in this case.

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      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s a ducking good joke.

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      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s a ducking good joke.

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    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So that motherfucker has almost a quintillion dollars.

        What the fuck did he do, conquer Ceres?

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      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Inflation is likely higher, since McDuck has way more of the cake than realistic.

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    • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That man is single handedly funding the Disney cartoons universe

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    • Belzebubulubu@mujico.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They did the math.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And today specifically, they did the monster math.

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    • takeda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, this could be done better and would still send a message without unnecessary exaggeration.

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      • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Are you suggesting that Scrooge McDuck's net work is less than $310 quadrillion? Second question: how do you know?

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      • WhiteHawk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bro, it’s a comic. They’re not trying to send a message, it’s supposed to be ridicilous.

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      • wandermind@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean, THE main character traits of Scrooge McDuck are that he’s stingy and absolutely ludicrously filthy rich.

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      • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It is a comic done for kids. There is no message, except entertaining them and selling comics.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d like to see you swim in a giant money bin with less than $310 quadrillion.

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      • Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It does get the message through though because it’s just about feelings not about some actual danger.

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    • Gordon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The government is gonna feel bad for him and bail him out

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  • ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Kind of appropriate as many of the super rich have no real concept of their wealth and what loss really is.

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  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh no, how will he be able to swim in his coin vault if that happens?

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  • tweeks@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, he has a position to uphold; what about future generations growing up with a broke Scrooge.

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  • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s with the three circles on his face?

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    • Black616Angel@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s social commentary.

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    • ElBarto@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …

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  • LEONHART@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When Russ Hanneman dropped down to two commas.

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