I am told that in movies, they actually try not to make the numbers in things like heists too big, because people can't grasp a billion dollars. You have to put the numbers close enough to the average person's frame of reference that they can understand what it buys.https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1235920566537895942 …
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Most people can basically grasp what a million dollars looks like, in consumer goods. If you live in an expensive city, you have a good idea of what you'd buy with, say, $50 million. But unless you yourself are ultrawealthy, you have no emotional grasp of what $1 billion means.
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I’m currently designing stuff for a new beach house for a billionaire. The master bathroom dressing wing bid isn’t totally done but it looks like 150k ish. For one of 8 bathrooms. The bathrooms will cost around 750k total for the house. Billionaires live in a diff reality
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I'm curious how you even spend that much. I know that in kitchens you can spend $500 on a stove, or $5,000 (Wolf, Viking, etc.) or $15k (double wide) or $50k ( La Cornue ). same orders-of-magnitude for cabinets (Ikea vs KraftMaid vs custom ) How do you spend $150k on bathroom?
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Replying to @Bighodagxl @asymmetricinfo
not doubting you! Just curious to know about the s̶t̶y̶l̶e̶s̶ hygiene brands of the rich and famous
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Dude! I loved Powers of the Earth btw, well deserved Prometheus for that one. I’m almost as excited as the time Scalzi liked one of my dumb shit posts

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LOL, thank you ! I worked really hard on those two novels and was quite happy with how they turned out. I always love to hear that others enjoyed them!
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