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I'm just a billion dollars away from being a billionaire.

• buryat 9y ago
  that's closer than some people
  • vacri 9y ago
    Louis CK has a great bit about going into negative dollars when his bank charged him a fee for not having enough money. "Now I have negative ten dollars. I gotta raise ten dollars just to be broke. If something's free, I can't afford it!"
    • dx034 9y ago
      That's why in some statistics, 10% of the US population counts as the poorest people in the world. Starving people in developing countries usually have exactly $0, in the US most students finishing college are technically poorer than most of the world's population. Doesn't reflect reality in any way though.
      • dopamean 9y ago
        There's a story that Ivanka Trump told to a documentarian about how her father told her once that a homeless man they passed on the street was richer than them because of how much debt they were in. IIRC she told that story because it was supposed to demonstrate something about her family's humility. I always thought it was a pretty dumb thing to say.