$310,000,000,000,000,000. Quadrillion is a lot.
Scrooge mcduck discovers bankruptcy
Submitted 1 year ago by nave@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Quackdrillion, in this case.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a ducking good joke.
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.
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.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Inflation is likely higher, since McDuck has way more of the cake than realistic.
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That man is single handedly funding the Disney cartoons universe
Belzebubulubu@mujico.org 1 year ago
They did the math.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And today specifically, they did the monster math.
takeda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, this could be done better and would still send a message without unnecessary exaggeration.
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?
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.
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.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is a comic done for kids. There is no message, except entertaining them and selling comics.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d like to see you swim in a giant money bin with less than $310 quadrillion.
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.
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.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The government is gonna feel bad for him and bail him out
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.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh no, how will he be able to swim in his coin vault if that happens?
tweeks@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Well, he has a position to uphold; what about future generations growing up with a broke Scrooge.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s with the three circles on his face?
Black616Angel@feddit.de 1 year ago
That’s social commentary.
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.
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
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?
snor10@lemm.ee 1 year ago
They’re not!? Colour me surprised!
Super popular in Sweden, at least when I grew up.
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.
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.
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.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
The Duck Tales show where he’s the good guy did really well tho
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.
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.
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.