To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”

  • @CheeseChief
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    311 months ago

    I’ve seen a $2 and a $100 bill and even had a few, but where’d you get a $1000 bill? I’ve never seen one of those.

    • BougieBirdie
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      411 months ago

      I might be getting wooshed because this is wordplay, but ‘bill’ in this context is used like ‘invoice’ or ‘expense’

      Something like less than half of americans can afford a $1000 surprise expense.

      • @CheeseChief
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        111 months ago

        I get it, I was just leaning into the 90%.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      Buy 4 new tires for your vehicle. All at once. Take a look at the vimes “boots theory of economic injustice” principal. 1000 seems extreme to you, but getting through the winter in certain parts can be sobering.

      The point isnt the dollar figure, it’s the principal.

    • @n0m4n
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      211 months ago

      It is old money, and not printed anymore. $1000 bills do exist, however.

    • @son_named_bort
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      211 months ago

      They’re basically a collectors item these days. They haven’t been in circulation since the 60s or so. Grover Cleveland is the president on the $1000 bill.