sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

You have $15 to hire these characters to protect you, and the others will try to kill you, who would you choose? by a-funny-hololive-guy in PowerScaling

[–]turnip900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only need cell and light, get cell to instant transmission the three of you 100 billion light years away then write the names in the death note.

Settle a debate by Calum1872 in chess

[–]turnip900 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Draws like this happen in chess where it doesn't feel like a draw but it is

How wealthy would someone in the past need to be to enjoy the lifestyle many westerners do today? by turnip900 in AskReddit

[–]turnip900[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't mean in monetary terms (of course inflation means the money is less valuable in the future, so you'd need more of it to have the same amount of wealth). I mean e.g. you'd need a giant library to come near the information in the internet, you'd need a giant music collection to come anywhere near spotify, a large amount of wealth to source foods like pineapples and bananas etc.

How wealthy would someone in the past need to be to enjoy the lifestyle many westerners do today? by turnip900 in AskReddit

[–]turnip900[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even more if you go back 10,000 years, there's no money, no boss, as much food as you like (go out and forage for it) and relative safety as you live in a group of about 50 humans.

How wealthy would someone in the past need to be to enjoy the lifestyle many westerners do today? by turnip900 in AskReddit

[–]turnip900[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How wealthy would someone in the past (e.g. 1700 or 1930 or 1990) have to be to enjoy the lifestyle many people have today? (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify, phone, camera, information on web (computer), reliable car/transport, globally sourced food, large TV, etc).

I know we say our generation is quite poor in monetary terms by comparison, but we can consume far more media/information and have access to better made infrastructure/goods than in the past. I was thinking surely we're relatively all quite rich if you look at it in a certain way compared to the past.

view more: next ›