Fascinating. I see some psych studies correlating it with intelligence, but haven’t found any discussing it in a cross cultural setting. I’ll note that good irony requires sufficient context (the test stories psych studies use to evaluate this seem to be at least a paragraph). Do you know a good summary on the effect?
Regardless, I’m pretty sure the OP is not only a play with proportional distribution, it also makes a basic math error. There’s nowhere near enough money in the US economy to make everyone a billionaire. Total assets of all us sectors are around 150 trillion = 150 000 000 000 000 (yes freedom units are weird). Redistributed to 350 million= 350 000 000 folks leaves us with less than a million per person. Fed data
even if we correct for demographics (babies don’t need this cash quite yet), assume serious reporting errors, and I’m misreading a couple 0s somewhere in your favor, there’s still not that much money.
Just because I can tell that something isn’t funny doesn’t mean that I can write something funny myself.
Irony, not humor, was the goal. It’s widely recognized the ability to spot irony is a pretty good test of intelligence.
Fascinating. I see some psych studies correlating it with intelligence, but haven’t found any discussing it in a cross cultural setting. I’ll note that good irony requires sufficient context (the test stories psych studies use to evaluate this seem to be at least a paragraph). Do you know a good summary on the effect?
Regardless, I’m pretty sure the OP is not only a play with proportional distribution, it also makes a basic math error. There’s nowhere near enough money in the US economy to make everyone a billionaire. Total assets of all us sectors are around 150 trillion = 150 000 000 000 000 (yes freedom units are weird). Redistributed to 350 million= 350 000 000 folks leaves us with less than a million per person. Fed data
even if we correct for demographics (babies don’t need this cash quite yet), assume serious reporting errors, and I’m misreading a couple 0s somewhere in your favor, there’s still not that much money.