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One problem with these kinds of visualizations is that they're often used to visualize things like the U.S. federal budget or, especially, the federal debt. Th
by curtis 14y ago
One problem with these kinds of visualizations is that they're often used to visualize things like the U.S. federal budget or, especially, the federal debt. The problem is that to tell those stories accurately, the visualization of trillions of dollars should be accompanied by a visualization of 300 million people.
- CarlosT 14y agoExactly. Since 50% of high growth companies are funded with less than $50,000, $1 trillion would fund the start of 20M young high growth companies. Fairly certain at least one of those, 20M, would have solved the financial crisis. In other related news, as of a couple of years ago, my town has a beautiful new landscaped highway median, welcoming you as you enter the city. Source: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201209/inc-staff/survey-of-inc-500-ceos-how-their-companies-grow.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/201209/inc-staff/survey-of-inc-5...
- jeremyjh 14y ago>50% of high growth companies are funded with less than $50,000 What is your source for that?
- CarlosT 14y agoSource: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201209/inc-staff/survey-of-inc-500-ceos-how-their-companies-grow.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/201209/inc-staff/survey-of-inc-5...
- Zakharov 14y agoYou'll run out of founders long before you run out of money.
- kens 14y agoI find it extremely helpful to convert any big US-wide number a per-capita value, which you can easily estimate in your head by multiplying by 3 and dividing by a billion. As a random example, the US spends $55 billion on pets annually, which is just an arbitrary number to me. But convert this to about $165 per capita and now it's much easier to see if this number is reasonable, compare it to other expenditures, etc. (And then there's the satirical visualization from Saturday Night Live: How big is a $16 trillion dollar debt? Imagine each of these dollar bills represents one trillion dollars. It would take a stack of 16 of them to equal $16 trillion dollars.)