0.3% is still over a million people? A million dollars is a lot of money. A million hours is a long time. This is, after all, the same hackernews that says "8

0.3% is still over a million people? A million dollars is a lot of money. A million hours is a long time. This is, after all, the same hackernews that says "80 billion in fraud and waste is only N% of the budget for that" where N sounds smaller than 80 billion. It is in our constitution, and some people are big enough assholes that I almost don't mind; but I know what a railroad is and it isn't hard to imagine a series of events where I am one of those million people. Also it's 5 million people in prison, not 1 million. 5 million is more than 1/3rd of 1%. There's a bit of waffle, is it half a percent? Is it more? Do you not count people who have left prison as having been slaves? I probably have never seen a million unique people in my life, including on TV and movies, nevermind 5 million. But I guess it isn't common. Because I don't understand "large numbers". I have seen a pile of 1,000,000 soda pop can pull tabs on a 30' tarp, so I have a rough idea of how large 1,000,000 is.