So to put this in perspective, at an average cost of 10 cents per LEGO this set would cost over 4 million dollars.
At the current brick market rate the 2×1 100$ Money Tile only goes for $0.01 so it would cost around $450,000. And the only known prototype George Lucas lego figure last sold for in the ballpark of $50k;
so grand total to achieve this build is ~$500k
Not to be that guy but this is no way to build Lego. There are no connections.
I really appreciate these attempts to help visualize fabulous sums of money. It reminds me of https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
This reminds me of my giant turd analogy.
Basically, there is this giant turd, its enormous, biggest thing you’ve ever seen Everyone is fighting and climbing over each other to touch thia turd. The more of your body that touches the turd the more you own.
At the bottom, people are barely getting a tip of their finger through the crowds to touch the turd, some cant touch it at all. They are poor or homeless.
As you move up the turd there are people with a whole hand on the turd, they are coping, they get by, pretty average amount of turd to be touching.
Some people have two hands on the turd and they do pretty well, quite well off.
Then theres those who are whole bodies in the turd, they are rolling in it, they have some put away that others can’t touch. They are set for life.
But then, you look up, and its jeff bezos, elon musk et al. Sitting on the rim of a giant toilet seat in the sky all taking a massive dump…
Its a shit analogy but its accurate.
I guess it would be more concise to say the mega rich are eating chicken whilst the rest of us fight for the scraps that fall off the table.
Horse and sparrow economics is what they used to call trickle down. The more I learn about “economics,” the more it looks like they are just lying to themselves ever since Keynes, so they can continue to be horrible people until we slap the shit out of them, and make them change.
I’ve been thinking: if we’re a nice kind of government, couldn’t we just print the money we’re going to use to for example, give americans in poverty 10000$ ? This would “just devalue the money the rich people have”, so something about international exchange rates is propably the thing that stops me from mentally circumventing the freedom-based value that we can’t just take money people have earned. really gross food for thought
Well actually…
I calculated it, this looks like 32 x 48 blocks, so a total volume of roughly 15.6 m³. Considering that they’re going to be loose in the box and not perfectly stacked, I’d double that volume. This would result in a box set, if it were a cube, with ~3m sides. The weight would be 10.53 tons.
The dollar bills have a slight hollow indent, so you can’t just model them as a solid prism of ABS. I assume is the question here. You might be off by about 15%
Can you imagine what a Star Trek film will look like with that kind of money?
If there were no billionaires, maybe we could live in a star trek like society, in a world beyond neoliberality.
If you live on a class M planet in the United Federation of Planets and have access to a replicator… Then, yes.
