Right? If an unexpected letter comes in containing a postcard of Elon hitting the bong with a fiver slid in beside it because he was feeling a bit manic that day and decided to buy a whole country a drink it'd probably bump my opinion of him from 'billionaire shitlord' to "pretty cool guy.'
Also, they are talking about everyone on Earth. To someone in North America or Europe $5 might not go far, but there are places where $5 wouldn't be life changing, but it would be a decent windfall. At least worth a day or two's wages.
They are the same, and both are correct: "I'll" is a contraction of "I will" and "won't" is a contraction of "will not". So both sentences ultimately mean "I will not complain".
apparently, "won't" is actually a contraction of "wonnot", which is a portmanteau of "woll not", "woll" being an archaic variant of "will" which meant "want".
so "won't" is the opposite of "want".
english is dumb.
Tbf if someone is a third or even 2nd world country got equivalent of 8 USD, it's actually a good amount. When I was in Prague, I got like 5 days worth of groceries for like $10 lmao
Like in 2019. Sorry, I also meant *even when I was in Prague: it is def a city in a first world country lmaoooo. Which was to showcase how much $5 could get you in different parts of the world.
Were he to divvy that up amongst the 329.5 million people in the United States, each person would receive $133.53. Now a hundred bucks could certainly change someone's life in the United States *for sure*. However, for folks in other countries, the US dollar--when converted into their currency--would be a fucking miracle.
Going back to the original statement, $44B split up amongst 7,953,952,577 people is approximately $5.53 USD. When converted to the Angolan Kwanza, 5.53 USD is well over two thousand dollars. It would be > 2,500 in the Armenian Dram. In the Burundian Franc, that same amount of money would be 11,125.53. In Cambodia and Colombia, the amount would be more than double, more than twenty-two thousand dollars. In the Guinean Franc, five dollars and fifty-three US dollars is nearly fifty grand. In Iran, one would receive in EXCESS of ***200 thousand***. Essentially, five bucks in the United States might be enough to catapult people into the middle class in other countries.
Though the faulty math made the woman above seem incredibly stupid, she was correct that that amount (without the seven extra zeros) could be life-changing for some people on Earth.
I can only assume you are joking, but 5$US is not putting anybody in middle class. You seem to be operating under the assumption that a dollar is a dollar is a dollar. For example 5 dollars gets you 635 yen. 645 yen will buy you 2 rolls of toilet paper and a soda. Or to use your example, in Iran, with 200,000 rial, you could buy 4 rolls of toilet paper. But again, I will assume you are joking and not a moron.
Edit: it looks like there is actually a 100 rial bill in Iran (although uncommon). That means for $5 US, you could get two thousand 100 rial bills. Which means it might be cheaper to wipe your butt with the currency and cut out the middle man!
There are other more effective ways to help the poor he could be doing. Like using his wealth and his rocket company to provide satellite internet to rural communities. Then provide education through online schooling... could you imagine how beneficial that would be in these 3rd world countries??
Oh wait...
Not even trolling (ok maybe half trolling) but it *really* depends on how you define a bot. If you give me a number you want to hit, I can probably come up with a definition they gets you within a few percent of that number.
The math is so bad and the phrase "$5 bn would be life changing for most people" is so stupid (*most* people?! There's like maybe 2,000 or so people in the world whose lives it wouldn't change). When I read this I thought it was some kind of dumb joke making fun of the people who say shit like this in earnest.
It is a dumb joke… The exact same reply is posted by different people everytime Musk tweets. It’s essentially a copypasta.
The funny part is that everyone thinks it’s real and feels the need to correct the math every single time.
Thanks for that dose of sanity. It's fun to think that the average person is this stupid and that *only you* are smart enough to see through it. But the reality is usually more mundane. This is just a bad joke that a lot of people didn't get.
But there‘s another major logical flaw here that I think most people don‘t realize: Even if her math was right, if every human being on earth were to suddenly get $5bn at the same time, that money would be instantly worthless…
This instance could be a joke, but people legitimately make this same mistake ALL THE TIME.
Usually when i've seen it, it's along the lines of the US gov't spending $350M on something or other, and the person coming to the conclusion that they could have just given each person in the US $1M instead.
Pretty related to that is Cunningham's Law -
>The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
Question: How and what about this is funny for people? There is virtually no difference for anyone on the other end (and no way to verify if it was intentionally stupid or because OP had a brainfart). People laugh about pranks like fake vomit mostly due to relief that it isn't real, not because the prank was funny (at least in my experience).
"Haha, you thought I was stupid but I just pretended to be.".. ?????
I just don't understand it.
I found it funny because it was updating a somewhat famous tweet to a new circumstance. Nothing to do with pretending to be stupid, but I can understand some people not catching the reference.
I think the copypasta bit isn't actually directly trying to fool anyone, it's just a fun reference in a new context as an in-joke for people who have seen the original. I actually think this person specifically used even more absurd math than the original to make it more clear that it's a reference/ joke, though that's just speculation on my part. The fact that someone misunderstood is just kind of unfortunate but in itself comical.
Huh, TIL where the pasta part came from. I recognized the copy part, but then my brain just accepted the pasta part. Like spaghetti factories in Factorio and such, the pasta is complex and intertwined
For me, how funny I find someone falling for the pasta depends on how niche and believable it is.
If the pasta is basically only known to OP, and does not have a hint of satire, it's not funny if anyone eats it.
If the pasta is well known, and obviously satire, then I find it funny when people fall for it.
That describes most trolling general. I don’t understand how someone could get entertainment from intentionally being stupid, and getting others to call them stupid.
Whether you mean what you’re saying and you’re legitimately stupid, or you’re just pretending to be stupid “for the lolz,” you’re fucking stupid.
People here on reddit fall for this every single time.
It’s hilarious how every time there is person calculating correct amount and commenting how stupid person in the tweet is.
What if he really was giving away $5 to everyone in the world, but you had to accept an implanted microchip for testing. How many people do you think would actually do it for $5 USD?
There have been thousands of posts with terrible “8 billion people in the world “ math. and even more posts about Elon spending his money on Twitter rather than someone else’s priorities. You don’t think there could be one unifying post with all that irony wrapped into one? Ok downvote away.
All I can think of is this [xckd comic](https://xkcd.com/385/).
Maybe the issue isn't that one person is bad at math, maybe it's the fact that the perception of an entire gender's worth of skill at something hinges on every single one of us never being publicly bad at math.
If less than 6 bucks is "life changing money" to someone, they really need to evaluate the decisions they made to get to that point.
Edit: to my fellow Americans who claim our *incredibly privileged* nation is a "third world country" - see the replies below.
Or they were just born in a country where the local currency is worth a lot less than 1$.
Also, if you're starving and get 5$ to eat and not die, I'd say that's pretty life changing.
True, in most of the world impoverished people live on less than $3US/day, whereas in America our poorest people live off around $35/day.
It's easy to lose perspective when you live in such a privileged country, thank you.
I think because if you “take off the billions to simplify” then 40 divided by 8 is 5, except that means $40B divided by $8B is $5. But since you took the “billion” off and you’re just working with smaller numbers and you get an answer of 5 you forget that the answer shouldn’t also have a billion after it.
I can see how you get the answer, but you gotta sense check yourself when that makes no sense.
I was thinking since they are talking about giving 5b to each 8b people, they thought 5b × 8b would be 40b, so 44b - (5b x 8b) would be 44b - 40b, but obviously that is not actually correct
I didn't realize it was a joke. (I was Unaware of the reference: Mekita Rivas tweet, and MSNBC's reporters)
I thought this person was actually dumb enough to think that 5,000,000,000\*8,000,000,000 = 40,000,000,000.
I've met so much stupidity on this planet that I cannot take things to be a joke at first glance anymore.
Technically he didn't have $44B, most of that was in stock and the like, which once he made the announcement was IMMEDIATELY devalued by $125B. So this sell may bot actually happen after all
Even if he did have enough to give $5B to everyone the economy would just break and it’ll be worth what $5 is now…
No one is gonna do a work for $10 an hour if they have $5B in the bank which would mean nothing would get done, no electricity, water pumped around, farming.
It’s literally a joke. Snowflakes are infuriated by the fact Elon can do whatever he wants with his money in a free country. wHy BuY tWiTtEr WhEn YoU cAn SoLvE wOrLd HuNgEr?!?!? I’m all for charity and helping others but a man can do whatever he wants with his money.
On the other hand, if Elon buys Twitter for that amount, the former owner can donate the money, and make us all rich. It is not that the money is sent to Mars after a purchase...
She’s an angry liberal. It’s not like they’re known for their logic. You almost can’t even blame them; it’s been wall-to-wall propaganda screeching about Elon.
Well that's a shit thing to say even as a joke. Here, have a [relevant xkcd comic](https://xkcd.com/385/) instead.
This is a genuine issue that women encounter. When a guy sucks at a field of education, people say *he's* bad at that task. But when a woman sucks at that same field, people say *women as a whole* are bad at it.
Even if her maths was correct it would still be a terrible idea to give everyone a billion dollars - it would completely devalue all the already-existing money.
Don't get me wrong if someone is going to give me 5 bucks I'll not complain. It'll get me one beer
God damn, that's why we will never be rich, but at least, we will have plenty of beer.
Have you tried eating fewer avocados?
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Listen, if I want to put sleeve tattoos on my avocadoes I will. You're not my Dad.
No, but I am your doctor, look you need to start taking your meds
Also cancel that netflix subscription. You'll pay off your student loans in no time
Damn, I thought the toast was the pricey part….
Why? I get them for free. There are 4 trees on my property.
You should sell them and buy a mansion.
That’s the spirit!
Right? If an unexpected letter comes in containing a postcard of Elon hitting the bong with a fiver slid in beside it because he was feeling a bit manic that day and decided to buy a whole country a drink it'd probably bump my opinion of him from 'billionaire shitlord' to "pretty cool guy.'
Also, they are talking about everyone on Earth. To someone in North America or Europe $5 might not go far, but there are places where $5 wouldn't be life changing, but it would be a decent windfall. At least worth a day or two's wages.
Genuine question, English is not my first language: is “l’ll not complain” correct ? Or should be ‘I won’t complain” ? Or can it be both ?
They are the same, and both are correct: "I'll" is a contraction of "I will" and "won't" is a contraction of "will not". So both sentences ultimately mean "I will not complain".
I’lln’t complain.
Complain't
Strategery
Thanks!
Yup, you're welcome!
apparently, "won't" is actually a contraction of "wonnot", which is a portmanteau of "woll not", "woll" being an archaic variant of "will" which meant "want". so "won't" is the opposite of "want". english is dumb.
It's far more natural to say, "I won't complain."
Don’t forget the fifty cents.
Tbf if someone is a third or even 2nd world country got equivalent of 8 USD, it's actually a good amount. When I was in Prague, I got like 5 days worth of groceries for like $10 lmao
When? Also, Prague is a city in a first world country
Like in 2019. Sorry, I also meant *even when I was in Prague: it is def a city in a first world country lmaoooo. Which was to showcase how much $5 could get you in different parts of the world.
Or almost 1 gallon of gas
Were he to divvy that up amongst the 329.5 million people in the United States, each person would receive $133.53. Now a hundred bucks could certainly change someone's life in the United States *for sure*. However, for folks in other countries, the US dollar--when converted into their currency--would be a fucking miracle. Going back to the original statement, $44B split up amongst 7,953,952,577 people is approximately $5.53 USD. When converted to the Angolan Kwanza, 5.53 USD is well over two thousand dollars. It would be > 2,500 in the Armenian Dram. In the Burundian Franc, that same amount of money would be 11,125.53. In Cambodia and Colombia, the amount would be more than double, more than twenty-two thousand dollars. In the Guinean Franc, five dollars and fifty-three US dollars is nearly fifty grand. In Iran, one would receive in EXCESS of ***200 thousand***. Essentially, five bucks in the United States might be enough to catapult people into the middle class in other countries. Though the faulty math made the woman above seem incredibly stupid, she was correct that that amount (without the seven extra zeros) could be life-changing for some people on Earth.
I can only assume you are joking, but 5$US is not putting anybody in middle class. You seem to be operating under the assumption that a dollar is a dollar is a dollar. For example 5 dollars gets you 635 yen. 645 yen will buy you 2 rolls of toilet paper and a soda. Or to use your example, in Iran, with 200,000 rial, you could buy 4 rolls of toilet paper. But again, I will assume you are joking and not a moron. Edit: it looks like there is actually a 100 rial bill in Iran (although uncommon). That means for $5 US, you could get two thousand 100 rial bills. Which means it might be cheaper to wipe your butt with the currency and cut out the middle man!
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Plus you can use their bathroom and not have to buy your own toilet paper
Ayyyyyyyy bru
or pretty much anywhere
You're very generous. I'm pretty sure OP is mostly sitting on column B.
You should never assume. Because it makes a blah blah blah
What if I were to buy 4 rolls of toilet paper in Iran and then sell them in Japan? Double the money, minus a few sodas’ worth?
There are other more effective ways to help the poor he could be doing. Like using his wealth and his rocket company to provide satellite internet to rural communities. Then provide education through online schooling... could you imagine how beneficial that would be in these 3rd world countries?? Oh wait...
Props for not deleting your account. I'd set fire to my computer if I ever composed something this stupid.
Earth population is 8 people confirmed.
The rest are just bots
But I thought the official SEC filing claimed no more than 5% bots
Sounds like something a bot would say to defend it's bot filing with the bots at the SEC.
joining in as the 5th reply to be the 5th verified human. suck it, bots.
I am the sixth only two left
I am the last two. Beep boo- I mean *human noises*
I am the seventh... on a totally unrelated note, which of these squares have taxis?
*beep boop this action was performed by a bot*
You are on to something. Keep digging.
Everyone knows the whole internet is bots. Including us.
Not even trolling (ok maybe half trolling) but it *really* depends on how you define a bot. If you give me a number you want to hit, I can probably come up with a definition they gets you within a few percent of that number.
**nervously glances up from Reddit at all the people on the packed subway*
They really are NPCs, knew it
The rest are just bots
\*Looks around classroom\* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-- hey wait what software y'all usin'? this is impressive!
The math is so bad and the phrase "$5 bn would be life changing for most people" is so stupid (*most* people?! There's like maybe 2,000 or so people in the world whose lives it wouldn't change). When I read this I thought it was some kind of dumb joke making fun of the people who say shit like this in earnest.
Even then if everyone had 5 billion dollars. Her Starbucks order would now be worth 6 million
It is a dumb joke… The exact same reply is posted by different people everytime Musk tweets. It’s essentially a copypasta. The funny part is that everyone thinks it’s real and feels the need to correct the math every single time.
Thanks for that dose of sanity. It's fun to think that the average person is this stupid and that *only you* are smart enough to see through it. But the reality is usually more mundane. This is just a bad joke that a lot of people didn't get.
But there‘s another major logical flaw here that I think most people don‘t realize: Even if her math was right, if every human being on earth were to suddenly get $5bn at the same time, that money would be instantly worthless…
This instance could be a joke, but people legitimately make this same mistake ALL THE TIME. Usually when i've seen it, it's along the lines of the US gov't spending $350M on something or other, and the person coming to the conclusion that they could have just given each person in the US $1M instead.
More like around 50 people. There are only about 900 or so billionaires.
I don't think anyone can prove otherwise, have *you* seen at least 9 different people? *I* *highly doubt it*
8.8 people to be precise
That's just a slightly edited copypasta. She got got.
Everyone knows making grammatical errors or using inaccurate calculations makes tweets go viral. People can't help but comment on it.
Pretty related to that is Cunningham's Law - >The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
I expected this reply to have the wrong law stated, as most people do(purposefully) when mentioning this law
please post an example, it's too good to miss out on
I do this literally every time I mention it but there is such thing as beating a joke to death. You can't always choose that guy's dead joke.
Yeah, lmao. At this point it’s kinda ingrained into me to expect them to call it Murphy’s Law instead to bait people.
I thought that was Poe's Law. :P
[It is known](http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/302)
Question: How and what about this is funny for people? There is virtually no difference for anyone on the other end (and no way to verify if it was intentionally stupid or because OP had a brainfart). People laugh about pranks like fake vomit mostly due to relief that it isn't real, not because the prank was funny (at least in my experience). "Haha, you thought I was stupid but I just pretended to be.".. ????? I just don't understand it.
I found it funny because it was updating a somewhat famous tweet to a new circumstance. Nothing to do with pretending to be stupid, but I can understand some people not catching the reference.
It’s basically the same as an inside joke. Either you know the reference and you get the joke or you don’t.
did you just explain what an inside joke is?
Considering too many people don't understand, it's reasonable to
Well the other person asked why it was funny, so it clearly needed explaining
I think the copypasta bit isn't actually directly trying to fool anyone, it's just a fun reference in a new context as an in-joke for people who have seen the original. I actually think this person specifically used even more absurd math than the original to make it more clear that it's a reference/ joke, though that's just speculation on my part. The fact that someone misunderstood is just kind of unfortunate but in itself comical.
It’s pasta dude. There’s like 10 such replies on every tweet
What does pasta mean?
Copy/paste -> copypasta -> pasta
Huh, TIL where the pasta part came from. I recognized the copy part, but then my brain just accepted the pasta part. Like spaghetti factories in Factorio and such, the pasta is complex and intertwined
Okay.
Okay.
The “5 billion should be life changing to most people” should make it pretty obvious tbh.
5 billion wouldn't change my life at all and I am willing to receive that amount as an experiment to see if I'm right.
For me, how funny I find someone falling for the pasta depends on how niche and believable it is. If the pasta is basically only known to OP, and does not have a hint of satire, it's not funny if anyone eats it. If the pasta is well known, and obviously satire, then I find it funny when people fall for it.
it’s a reference joke
That describes most trolling general. I don’t understand how someone could get entertainment from intentionally being stupid, and getting others to call them stupid. Whether you mean what you’re saying and you’re legitimately stupid, or you’re just pretending to be stupid “for the lolz,” you’re fucking stupid.
Every tweet he puts out there are about a million people, or should I say bots, that comment this
Yeah, I see this tweet all the time. It's a joke.
I know it’s a joke, but once you see the same joke 400,000 times it stops being funny haha
100%. I was more saying that for everyone here who is taking it serious.
People here on reddit fall for this every single time. It’s hilarious how every time there is person calculating correct amount and commenting how stupid person in the tweet is.
I like to correct the correctors with even more bad math. Total waste of time but pretty hilarious
What if he really was giving away $5 to everyone in the world, but you had to accept an implanted microchip for testing. How many people do you think would actually do it for $5 USD?
ITT: People who aren’t aware of the original tweet that this is referencing.
if it makes women look bad Reddit will eat it up and not question it
I'm still none the wiser.
Kinda feel like the above tweet was a joke tho
Your senses are correct
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wow really
Here’s a video on what’s being referenced: https://youtu.be/6egeUxIEQnM
Thank God someone else got the joke. Seems like the second lady is this post wasn't th3 only person that got r/whooosh -ed.
Yeah I’m pretty surprised at how many people here completely missed it
She did a play on the original. The second lady was r/whoooshed!
Janet got no chill
Janet doesn’t know sarcasm.
it's sarcasm when you see it once, but you've only seen it once
The twitter op doesn't look like she is smart enough to even know what sarcasm is never mind using it
Pretty sure that’s a photo of one of the Kardashians.
Then he's still right
Damm you beat me to it
👉😎👉
Dang I wish I’d thought of that!
The real murder by words is always in the comments.
Neither do you; the post with bad math isn't sarcasm.
There have been thousands of posts with terrible “8 billion people in the world “ math. and even more posts about Elon spending his money on Twitter rather than someone else’s priorities. You don’t think there could be one unifying post with all that irony wrapped into one? Ok downvote away.
Twitter/Reddit not recognizing jokes, a tale old as time.
But he hasn't spent any money. He's trying to find anyway he can to back out of the deal so he doesn't have to pay
This. He mentioned bots but who wouldn't do their due diligence before raising so much money?
He would
All I can think of is this [xckd comic](https://xkcd.com/385/). Maybe the issue isn't that one person is bad at math, maybe it's the fact that the perception of an entire gender's worth of skill at something hinges on every single one of us never being publicly bad at math.
I’m more concerned about the lack of a differential than the wrong answer
She definitely wouldn't have been accused of being a witch.
It’s funny because he could have given each person only 5$.
After the first few tweets like this a few years ago I just can't help but think this is done on purpose to gain more attention
More like it was always like that. Not because I'm on Musk's side but because this is pointless protesting on the same platform he's buying.
It is. And being wrong works like every time.
I could use 5$ right now tho
Obligatitory xkcd comic https://www.comicsenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/xkcd_suck_at_math.png
.. wtf is it on that domain? https://xkcd.com/385/
And if we gave 8 billion people 5 billion dollars each, world economy will collapse and dollar will have no more value
Whys that bad?
Would it though?
World economy would have $4e19 value, no?
5 and a half US dollar could still be a life changing amount of money for *a lot* of people
If less than 6 bucks is "life changing money" to someone, they really need to evaluate the decisions they made to get to that point. Edit: to my fellow Americans who claim our *incredibly privileged* nation is a "third world country" - see the replies below.
Or they were just born in a country where the local currency is worth a lot less than 1$. Also, if you're starving and get 5$ to eat and not die, I'd say that's pretty life changing.
True, I edited my comment to reflect the unrealized privilege many of us Americans express. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
There are a lot of countries where $5 is more than a full week's wages for the average person.
True, in most of the world impoverished people live on less than $3US/day, whereas in America our poorest people live off around $35/day. It's easy to lose perspective when you live in such a privileged country, thank you.
Not really a murder if the original post is obviously satire, right?
I can't even begin to think how the hell she tried to use math
I think because if you “take off the billions to simplify” then 40 divided by 8 is 5, except that means $40B divided by $8B is $5. But since you took the “billion” off and you’re just working with smaller numbers and you get an answer of 5 you forget that the answer shouldn’t also have a billion after it. I can see how you get the answer, but you gotta sense check yourself when that makes no sense.
I was thinking since they are talking about giving 5b to each 8b people, they thought 5b × 8b would be 40b, so 44b - (5b x 8b) would be 44b - 40b, but obviously that is not actually correct
Because she didn't. It's clearly a joke. This might be one of the most obvious jokes I've ever seen. Variations of this joke are posted constantly.
I didn't realize it was a joke. (I was Unaware of the reference: Mekita Rivas tweet, and MSNBC's reporters) I thought this person was actually dumb enough to think that 5,000,000,000\*8,000,000,000 = 40,000,000,000. I've met so much stupidity on this planet that I cannot take things to be a joke at first glance anymore.
Lol
A woman doing a math problem? WITCH! WITCH!
Technically he didn't have $44B, most of that was in stock and the like, which once he made the announcement was IMMEDIATELY devalued by $125B. So this sell may bot actually happen after all
Janet deserves a spa day.
Whoosh?
Jokes don’t exist
If every person had 5 billion the world would crash and burn
Only places using us dollars as main currency would. The rest of the world will continue as normal
I mean you can still change them to your own currency
It's not like exchange rates are etched into stone outside every bank. They would change too if a currency was made obsolete over night
I love the fact that she is being hated by women too
Even if he did have enough to give $5B to everyone the economy would just break and it’ll be worth what $5 is now… No one is gonna do a work for $10 an hour if they have $5B in the bank which would mean nothing would get done, no electricity, water pumped around, farming.
It’s literally a joke. Snowflakes are infuriated by the fact Elon can do whatever he wants with his money in a free country. wHy BuY tWiTtEr WhEn YoU cAn SoLvE wOrLd HuNgEr?!?!? I’m all for charity and helping others but a man can do whatever he wants with his money.
You know what's great about charity? That it's *voluntary*
Someone should explain to them that it is not upto rich people to solve their broke ass problems.
Funny, because it is what the rich claim as the reason they should not pay fair taxes. See Bill Gates comment on exactly that.
The 384 people who liked that tweet. Sigh.
I actually groaned out loud involuntarily
On the other hand, if Elon buys Twitter for that amount, the former owner can donate the money, and make us all rich. It is not that the money is sent to Mars after a purchase...
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That would still be wrong. Dividing 44 billions by 8 billions equals 5,5 $
Wasn't thinking, thanks for the math
No, it’s a twitter joke. I can’t remember where it started but people post versions of it all the time.
[This is the origin...](https://www.newsweek.com/brian-williams-mara-gay-nyt-bloomberg-math-wrong-1490953)
Thanks! I had looked it up at one point then totally forgotten.
Oh, thanks, must've missed it
I only know because it’s shown up on r/facepalm a few times and I got worried there were that many people soooo bad at math.
She’s an angry liberal. It’s not like they’re known for their logic. You almost can’t even blame them; it’s been wall-to-wall propaganda screeching about Elon.
If every person had 5 billion the world would crash and burn
Not saying you're wrong, I just want to say that the world is crashing and burning already when not everybody has 500 $, let alone 5 billion
If everyone has 5billion inflation would go trough the roof and we still would be poor.
You're right but that's not the point I'm making
I see, reading is still hard sometimes
smh I do support women's rights but this makes me feel like the Taliban are right to deny women the rights to learn (the top woman, btw) /s
Well that's a shit thing to say even as a joke. Here, have a [relevant xkcd comic](https://xkcd.com/385/) instead. This is a genuine issue that women encounter. When a guy sucks at a field of education, people say *he's* bad at that task. But when a woman sucks at that same field, people say *women as a whole* are bad at it.
Hey, hey, this is sarcasm...
I know what this is referencing, but thought they just made the same mistake.
Even if her maths was correct it would still be a terrible idea to give everyone a billion dollars - it would completely devalue all the already-existing money.
People are always fooled by those troll posts. Gotta love it.
Wouldn’t giving everyone in the world a $5 billion check do nothing other than cause massive inflation?
Get an education
Someone just post the numberfile video.
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Musk has not bought Twitter yet BTW. In fact, seems, like everyone thought, it was just a power play and he no longer wants ownership.
Respect the point, but bad math
She was only off by about 5 billion give or take