$310,000,000,000,000,000. Quadrillion is a lot.
Scrooge mcduck discovers bankruptcy
Submitted 7 months ago by nave@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Quackdrillion, in this case.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s a ducking good joke.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months 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 7 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.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 7 months ago
So that motherfucker has almost a quintillion dollars.
What the fuck did he do, conquer Ceres?
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 months ago
Inflation is likely higher, since McDuck has way more of the cake than realistic.
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That man is single handedly funding the Disney cartoons universe
Belzebubulubu@mujico.org 7 months ago
They did the math.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And today specifically, they did the monster math.
takeda@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, this could be done better and would still send a message without unnecessary exaggeration.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 7 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 7 months ago
Bro, it’s a comic. They’re not trying to send a message, it’s supposed to be ridicilous.
wandermind@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I mean, THE main character traits of Scrooge McDuck are that he’s stingy and absolutely ludicrously filthy rich.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It is a comic done for kids. There is no message, except entertaining them and selling comics.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’d like to see you swim in a giant money bin with less than $310 quadrillion.
Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 7 months ago
It does get the message through though because it’s just about feelings not about some actual danger.
Gordon@lemmy.world 7 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.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The government is gonna feel bad for him and bail him out
ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months ago
Oh no, how will he be able to swim in his coin vault if that happens?
tweeks@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Well, he has a position to uphold; what about future generations growing up with a broke Scrooge.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What’s with the three circles on his face?
Black616Angel@feddit.de 7 months ago
That’s social commentary.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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LEONHART@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
When Russ Hanneman dropped down to two commas.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months ago
They’re not!? Colour me surprised!
Super popular in Sweden, at least when I grew up.
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months 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 7 months ago
I recall them being popular in Germany, too, but yeah, they never took off like that here in the US.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
The Duck Tales show where he’s the good guy did really well tho
snooggums@kbin.social 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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.