A representation of the USA's debt in astronomical terms.

A reddit comment explaining how big the US' debt is. It's crazy that humans created a capitalist system that creates debt like this:

*A stack of $1 bills of the U.S. debt is 2.26x taller than the entire Solar System stacked.

A stack of one million $1 is 109 meters high, just taller than the Statue of Liberty.

A stack of one billion $1 is 109 kilometers high, just outside the rounded-off Karman Line; Earth's boundary into Space.

A stack of one trillion $1 is 109,000 kilometers high, 1/3 of the way to the Moon -- taller than entire planets.

Here we go: The U.S. is $37 trillion in debt. 37 stacks of one trillion = 4,033,000 km. All Planets stacked together is ~382,000 km. The Sun is ~1,400,000 km in diameter. = 1,782,000 km

4,033 / 1,782 = 2.26

Not width of the bills, not length of the bills, but the thickness of the bills: A stack. A towering stack of cosmic proportions.*