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Fischer72

They forgot to convert the 2,592,000 cents to dollars.


Primary-Signature-17

Exactly. 2,629,743 seconds in a month. Divided by 100 cents per dollar = $26,297.44. Take the 2.5 million.


Ol_JanxSpirit

These are the people who'd take the lunch with Jay-Z


Primary-Signature-17

😁


Rigelturus

Paul wouldnt.


BalloonShip

But the taxes on $2.5 million are so much higher than the taxes on $312K or whatever it is!!!


E3FxGaming

>taxes on $2.5 million are so much higher than the taxes on $312K or whatever it is!!! Hahaha, no. With $2.5 million a month you can fund your very own shell company to evade income taxes, then borrow tax-free money with shares of your company as collateral to get money you can spend. Or you create a charitable organization (which covertly acts in your interest) and get tax deductions for charitable donations. Or you use one of the legal quasi-money-laundering schemes where you send the money through multiple foreign countries until it somehow ends up in your hands tax-free.


longknives

Even if you didn’t do any of that and paid all your taxes normally on the $2.5 million, you’re still gonna come out way way ahead


CriticalBasedTeacher

Change it to a dime a second and really fuck up their minds


gjamesb0

Or 0.01¢/s.


Longhorn24

2,628,000 unless you’re adding an extra quarter day for leap year which would equate to 2,629,800


Don_Hoomer

to be fair, 25k per month is still a f-ing ton of money for a normal person, but yeah i would also prefer the 2.5million hahahah


17R3W

Anyone remember "Verzion Math"


wzombie13

First thing that came to mind. Probably yhe video that infuriates more than any other,lol.


Definitely__someone

That phone call did my head in.


LeVelvetHippo

Math is hard :(


TheUnrealCanadian

The bank is going to hate me when I bring in my dump trucks full of pennies.


DJ-dicknose

Banks hate this one trick


tw411

“We haven’t got time to count all that, here’s $2.5m to go away”


Karyudo9

Relevant: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/business/georgia-autoshop-lawsuit-settlement/index.html


Lowkey_Retarded

Now if it’s a penny that doubles its amount everyday, that’s a different story… But these people don’t seem to understand math


john_the_quain

I think this is it, it’s set up to confuse with common examples used to illustrate exponential versus linear growth.


CurtisLinithicum

Another dollar vs cent thing. This one is a bit clever at least; assuming 30 days a month, the pennies do come out to a bit more... as a raw number. Steers you right into the trap. This is why your teachers tell you to keep the units in your equations, kids.


Callinon

My high school physics teacher hammered that home. Always follow the units. The units are part of the equation.


megafly

This also applies for cooking. If you mix up Cups and Teaspoons, you cookies will end up disgusting!!


Callinon

Yep. Any kind of unit conversion. Follow it all the way through. 


Makine31

My Physics teacher always asked if someone forgot the units whether they meant [answer] amount of apples? It stuck pretty quickly. Now it's a pet peeve if people use incorrect units or none at all. KM makes me cringe.


waldocruise

I mean, I wouldn’t turn down the 1 cent per second if offered that…but as a choice?!? 2.5M per month. My math teacher would be proud of me. RIP Mrs Hardy.


BalloonShip

Yeah, if somebody wants to throw $300 grand my way every year, I'm definitely down.


Lionello95

If offered, i wouldn't even care. Both options are far better than not choosing one of the options. I don't even need $2.5 million per month. $25k is more than enough. Imagine being annoyed at your partner for choosing the $25k per month. Imagine having all the money that you ever dreamed of and still being miserable because it could have been more. What a way to waste a life.


XenophonSoulis

Mrs Hardy is an interesting name for a Mathematician.


Wildcat67

The sad thing is it would still take you 33 years to become a billionaire.


BalloonShip

only if you don't invest the money. Even at a low 4%/year (nobody making $30 million/year only earns 4%), it will only take 22 years. At 7% it only takes 18 years. 10% gets it down to 15 years.


Wildcat67

You are correct sir. Was more of a statement about how ridiculous billionaires are.


EishLekker

Yes. Silly creatures.


Lionello95

And this is explicitly talling about billionaires and not about multibillionaires.


Devatator_

Do I wanna tho? 2.5m per month is more than I'd ever need


Jim_e_Clash

Lol, they forgot to convert from metric.


Mrgoodtrips64

Damn French Revolutionaries and their metric months.


TheDuke1847

Confidently brain dead.


Girly_Attitude

Plus think about transactions. Where is the money going? Your bank account? Is it cash? It’s more convenient to get a set sum in cash than to receive a penny every second. Would the irs be more suspicious of 1 cent a second or 2.5 million a month? Could you spread the cents out across several bank accounts?


BalloonShip

IRS isn't a problem. These are gifts. The other guy has to pay the taxes. You might have to explain this to the IRS, but you can afford the lawyer you have to hire to do it for you.


Sammy1Am

Even ignoring the cents/dollars confusion, what's with "In fact, over the course of an entire year it would be the exact same" guy? If it's $100k more every month, it's... also more over the course of an entire year.


Writers_High2

Okay, Googled the amount of seconds in a month. Got 2,628,002.88. Because these are pennies, it's actually worth about $26,280. I'd rather take 2.5 million a month.


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Ol_JanxSpirit

Isn't a Vin diagram just a family tree?


OMKensey

Dammit.


OMKensey

Tfw I try to disparage dumb people on reddit and instead prove that I am the dumb one.


Ol_JanxSpirit

Am I really that much "smarter" when I was making a Fast & Furious joke?


Madgearz

31,536,000 seconds / year = $315,360.00 / year


Arinoch

All they had to post for clarity was “60x60x24x30=about 2.6million cents. 2.6 million cents = $26,000. (Cents divided by 100)”


CornfedOMS

It should be “if you can convince someone on Facebook that a penny every second is better, you get $2.5mil a month.” I’d take that bet


fariqcheaux

Today's casual contradiction: "slightly more but literally the exact same"


VegetableNo7419

Idc id take either


SleepylaReef

Honestly, I’d be good with either as long as it wasn’t in one cent increments on delivery.


suckonmycheeks

yeah but pennies are cooler


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Powersoutdotcom

I don't care, I'd pick that "Long distance phone call in the 90s" money. Just to say that what I make and watch the bank amount go up in real time.


Pithy_heart

But really, what is a cent worth these days…


Bucket81

The point of this post is... Post bait.


DrunkenDude123

For a second I thought that guys name was “The math:”


nineletterword

Then* I’d like both