Your maths is wrong by three orders of magnitude (unless you meant 2.6 billion, not trillion?) - 450M is 0.017% of $2.6T. Anyway, it's not a scam or a joke - m

Your maths is wrong by three orders of magnitude (unless you meant 2.6 billion, not trillion?) - 450M is 0.017% of $2.6T. Anyway, it's not a scam or a joke - money is an abstract concept (the value is always mostly in what you can buy with it, not really in the thing itself). It always has been that way and always will be. Trying to compare nominal dollar values without any correction for anything (population, size of the economy, wage growth, inflation, whatever) is totally meaningless. You can literally draw no valid conclusions from doing so.