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The lessons learned will be "hide your crimes better". And a few token gestures. This kind of crime is just too profitable, and the "little man" will not start
by corty 6y ago
The lessons learned will be "hide your crimes better". And a few token gestures. This kind of crime is just too profitable, and the "little man" will not start any larger protests over it. So there is no desire anywhere in substantial changes.
- roenxi 6y agoBillions of dollars just turned out not to be there. I'm going to throw out a challenge to the idea that the "little man" was the loser here on the basis that little men do not have billions of dollars to lose. Someone bigger than little lost here. If every man, woman and child in Germany chipped in $1,000 that still isn't a billion dollars.
- siegfried-en 6y agoIt'd be around 80 billion dollars, actually
- pgrulich 6y agoI think he confused the us billion (10⁹) with the german billion (10¹²) ;)
- mratsim 6y agoWhat? So what do German use for 10^9, Milliarden? In French we use Milliard for billion and Trilliard for Trillions (and millions for millions).
- siegfried-en 6y agoYeah, that's probably it!
- linjus 6y agobut he used "billions" correctly in the first sentence
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- jpoesen 6y agoHow many people do you think live in Germany?
- marton78 6y agoLess than 8,000 apparently.
- bildung 6y agoCommon mistake if you come from a language using the long scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
- fastball 6y agoI guess instead of saying "a billion dollars" we should say "1 Gigadollar"
- rudiv 6y agoMmm, I'd like to spend no more than half a kilorupeee on dinner.
- BrandoElFollito 6y agoI was surprised the first time I read about crore and lakh, they take some time to get used to.
- corty 6y agoPension funds, general investments, small-time stockholders will loose money, and all that does affect the "little man". It is just indirect and hidden enough that most won't complain.