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
True, but you'd get a discount if you hand selected all the needed peices with any set though. The 10 cent estimate is for official sets, so if Lego released this set we could expect they'd price it at around $4 million
I really appreciate these attempts to help visualize fabulous sums of money. It reminds me of https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
This reminds me of my giant turd analogy.
Basically, there is this giant turd, its enormous, biggest thing you've ever seen Everyone is fighting and climbing over each other to touch thia turd. The more of your body that touches the turd the more you own.
At the bottom, people are barely getting a tip of their finger through the crowds to touch the turd, some cant touch it at all. They are poor or homeless.
As you move up the turd there are people with a whole hand on the turd, they are coping, they get by, pretty average amount of turd to be touching.
Some people have two hands on the turd and they do pretty well, quite well off.
Then theres those who are whole bodies in the turd, they are rolling in it, they have some put away that others can't touch. They are set for life.
But then, you look up, and its jeff bezos, elon musk et al. Sitting on the rim of a giant toilet seat in the sky all taking a massive dump...
Its a shit analogy but its accurate.
I guess it would be more concise to say the mega rich are eating chicken whilst the rest of us fight for the scraps that fall off the table.
Horse and sparrow economics is what they used to call trickle down. The more I learn about "economics," the more it looks like they are just lying to themselves ever since Keynes, so they can continue to be horrible people until we slap the shit out of them, and make them change.
Thanks for this. Something about having to scroll, and it being zoomed in to almost everyday scale makes this hit so much harder than graphs with a tiny dot next to the wealth of the billionaires.
It's insanity.
I've been thinking: if we're a nice kind of government, couldn't we just print the money we're going to use to for example, give americans in poverty 10000$ ? 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
Think of it like a ratio. It devalues the savings of every day people more significantly than it devalues the massive piles rich people have. Rich people have this insane buffer and always have the means to play the rigged system to their favour and win.
The biggest problem with that is that rich people don't actually have massive piles of cash, they have massive piles of stocks. Devalue the currency, and their stocks are worth a lot more actual cash
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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%
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The part pictured here seems to be 3069px7 with the base color incorrectly set to white. In any case, it's 3069, the standard 1x2 tile. Thanks to the folks at LDraw who have modeled every Lego brick in detail (because of course people have done that), we get a volume of 303.8mm³, with a bounding box size of 409.6mm³, for a density of about 74%. But, Bricklink can just directly tell us the mass of a 1x2 tile is 0.26g, so the total mass is 10.5 metric tons.
Of course someone has just published a table with all know masses of all lego pieces ever
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Bricklink is a site for individuals/small business to buy and sell primarily individual Lego pieces, so it's important for shipping calculations to have reasonably accurate weights of all the pieces. Their weights are therefore contributed by those sellers. Although now that LEGO Group owns Bricklink, you'd think they could just slide them the numbers.
Bingo.
In anything that does not perfectly stack, you have to assume a bulk density (density that accounts for porosity)
This is common in soil science since soils are only 50% solid.
If there were no billionaires, maybe we could live in a star trek like society, in a world beyond neoliberality.
Kinda crazy how one layer of that is more money than most people will ever have available at any given time, and he has over 25,000 layers
https://www.housingfinance.com/news/george-lucas-proposes-affordable-housing_o
Tried to get affordable housing built, that's pretty cool.
So why does it only come with 40.5 million plastic bux if the title of the set is 4.05 billion
Not to be THAT guy, but the instructions say 1x Forty Million Five-Hundred Thousand
Represented numerically, 4 billion looks like:
4 000 000 000.00