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Kind of off-topic, but I've always thought a good way to suss out what sort of background somebody comes from is to ask them to visualise $1million dollars. Pe
by jmkni 1y ago
Kind of off-topic, but I've always thought a good way to suss out what sort of background somebody comes from is to ask them to visualise $1million dollars.
People from a "working class" background tend to see a massive pile of money, more middle class, a smaller pile, upper class maybe a cheque or a small stack of $100 bills or a bank transfer.
It's maybe one of the weirdest parts of the JBR ransom note (getting really off-topic now), "$118,000 dollars be placed into an "adequately sized attaché" consisting of $100,000 in $100 dollar bills and $18,000 in $20 dollar bills."
That would take up a really small amount of space, but if you're never seen that amount of money you might not know that (especially in 1996, pre-internet)
- adolph 1y agoWhat is the background of someone who visualizes Scrooge McDuck diving into a pool of doubloons?
- PebblesRox 1y agoGerman
- SilasX 1y agoJBR = JonBenet Ramsey https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killing_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey&useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killing_of_JonBen...
- SilasX 1y agoSeparate comment so you can separately downvote/flag me: Why, OP, why? How much self-awareness does it really take to realize JBR is a non-standard acronym people won't recognize? It almost feels like a superpower that I take an extra half-second to think about what jargon the average person needs to have defined.
- spiralcoaster 1y agoReading the OP, it appears they were pretty much blurting out a semi-nonsensical stream of consciousness. That's my best guess as to why they didn't bother to define JBR, because in reality, they weren't writing for any other audience other than themselves.
- jmkni 1y agoThat sums it up nicely lol
- SilasX 1y agoPossibly, but I generally see it as a problem from pretty much everyone, especially specialists, speaking to people outside their domain, to be horribly miscalibrated about what jargon the layperson understands, or to just not give it any thought. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/ So you don't need to explain it by any specific failing of the OP, it's common among the lucid as well.
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- alex_young 1y agoIDK, a strap of $100 bills is $10k, so $1M would be 100 of them. Seems sizable. Looks like a strap is about .43 inches tall, so that would make your $1M about 3 and a half feet high or more than a meter tall for the non-imperial afflicted amongst us.
- conductr 1y agoStacking it in a single sack is a bit silly though, it would fit in a small duffle bag or backpack.