MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Redistributionist nonsense about Bloomberg wealth being spread by MSNBC
By artappraiser on Fri, 03/06/2020 - 1:59am |
Reality check:
(I am sensitive about this having made my own serious maths mistake with mega zero amounts only recently 
But I am just a pseudonymous person on the internet, not a large news network.)
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Comments
the shamefully stupid video (never liked Brian Williams! now his producer, too)
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/06/2020 - 3:12am
$1.47 buys a lot.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 03/06/2020 - 9:17am
How does the math work? I don't see it.
by PS (not verified) on Sat, 03/14/2020 - 9:32pm
Bloomberg spent $500M
There are 340M in the US
Split 500M among 340M
500/340 gives you roughly $1.47 to each person
Give a million to 340 million means you hand out $340 trillion
The math error made on the show is understandable
Trump and Sanders make the same type of calculations every day
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 03/14/2020 - 10:06pm
I think Bloomberg got 61 delegates
Bloomberg spent $81,967.21 per delegate
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 03/14/2020 - 10:25pm
Thanks.
It's sort of like one of those visual gestalt puzzles: Look at it one way, it's a young woman; look at it the other way, and it's old woman.
It's less a math error than a sort of visual error--ignore the zeroes and just looking at the first three digits.
The error was in not doing the math. If they'd done math, they probably woulda gotten it right.
As would I have. I hope! LOL.
I'm a wee bit embarrassed, but thank you.
You are a gentleman. Hope I have THAT right.
by PS (not verified) on Mon, 03/16/2020 - 11:01am
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/08/2020 - 12:17pm