2 + 2 = 5 is true. Only for very large values of 2
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$1.52 per person? Bloomberg really COULD buy the world a coke.
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Doubtful given NYC’s position on sugary beverages.
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Well, he could buy the United States a Coke…
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lol. I assume you know who she is though.
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I couldn’t make it to the end. Way to cringey.
For values of 2 larger than 2.25 and less or equal to 2.75.
i.e. 2.49 + 2.49 = 4.98
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No clue.
For small values of 5 as well.
We round to the nearest integer, so 2.26 + 2.26 = 4.52. Or, (more than) 2 + (more than) 2 = (less than) 5.
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So according to his math we would all get one dollar?
No. I would not vote for Bloomberg for $1
A million dollars? Yes. But then I would donate at least half of that to Bernie.
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This sort of meme has been floating around for years. Any time hundreds of millions are spent on something, they are like, “350 Million? Just eve each person a million bucks!”
And then a bunch of
“Hell yeahs!”
and
“No no, we would each get a dollar.”
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I feel so exhausted
“People on Twitter are saying…” is the laziest thing in journalism.
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I googled:
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Her post is factually correct in one regard. Bloomberg is supposedly worth 60 billion - $60,000,000,000. If he had given $1,000,000 to every American, he would still have money left over - $59,673,000,000. If she had said “if he had given $1,000,000 of that $500,000,000 to every American…” then she would have been wrong. But if you consider her as thinking of Bloomberg’s overall value, she was right.
$500,000,000 divided among 327,000,000 people is $1.5290519877675840978593272171254 each.
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I’ll take a buck fifty
Yeah, no. Go check your numbers.
$1,000,000 times 327,000,000 individuals = $327,000,000,000,000–three-hundred-twenty-seven trillion dollars, which is far more money than Bloomberg has (and is about 15 times the entire U.S. GDP).
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And for very small values of 5!
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