$1,000,000,000,000 is just as worthless as $1,000,000,000,000,000,000

In the context of the United States federal budget.<br><br>There are a number of reasons for this. First, in context, $1 trillion is about 3% of the entire federal budget. 3% of a number is as negligible as a percentage can be. 3% of $100,000,000 here, 3% of $100,000,000 there, 3% of $100,000,000 everywhere, and eventually you have real money.<br><br>Second, there isn't one government project with a $1 trillion price tag. It's spread out over many smaller projects. NASA costs $22 billion a year. The USS Gerald Ford costs $13 billion. Tell me with a straight face you didn't spend $13 billion this year on stupid shit. We all do it, but we get to choose where we spend our $13 billion a year. The government doesn't offer us that opportunity.<br><br>Third, government projects don't get final price tags. $13 billion spent on an aircraft carrier was merely the down payment on the $13 billion aircraft carrier, which final tally will be many times higher. The new $800 billion reopened the government for three weeks, but if the government hadn't been shut down in the first place, it still would have spent $800 billion in the next three weeks. So that $800 billion was spent either accidentally or purposefully as a means to get the Dems to agree to reopen the government for three weeks and then shut it down again.<br><br>Fourth, the United States government doesn't print money; it borrows money. Except when it prints money, and then it prints $1 trillion here and $1 trillion there. $1 trillion here, $1 trillion there, $1 trillion everywhere, and eventually you have real money. But debt. Tell me you didn't borrow $1 trillion this year, but you probably did. We all borrow $1 trillion a year, but we can't print money, so we have to pay it back. The government can't print money, but it does anyway, so it doesn't have to pay it back. It just prints more and then prints even more to cover up the discrepancy. Am I an economist? No. Am I correct? Also no. But I'm right.<br><br>Fifth, if you were given $1 trillion randomly, you would be set for life. $1 trillion is a fucking shitload of goddamn money. You could throw $1 billion into an investment with a 1% annual return and earn, completely passively, $10,000,000 a year. That's $2,740,000 a month. You could throw another $1 billion into a different investment with a 2% annual return and earn an additional $20,000,000 a year. That's now $22,740,000 a month. And you'd still have $978,000,000,000 left over. You're set for life and you still have $978,000,000,000.<br><br>Now imagine you're making $22,740,000 a month off of your two $1 billion investments, but you're still getting a W-2 each year for $100,000,000. You don't need the $100,000,000 W-2, but you still get it anyway. $100,000,000 a year is $8,333,333 a month. Now your monthly income is $31,073,333 and you still have $978,000,000,000 invested. How much money would you need before $1 trillion became too much money? $978 * 1000 billion is $978,000,000,000,000,000. $978 quintillion. You'd have to multiply your passive investments 1000x before $1 trillion became too much money relative to what you already have. So $1 trillion and $1 quintillion are the same.<br><br>Sixth, I don't want to hear from you if you're under 60. You haven't been around long enough to know how to spend money. I don't know how to spend money. When I get older, I'll tell you how to spend money. If we're both still alive in 40 years, I'll be able to tell you how to spend money. You can't tell me how to spend money because you haven't even learned how to not spend money. I won't trust you to spend money until you trust yourself to spend money. You haven't lived through a recession yet, so you don't know how to save money. You haven't lived through a depression yet, so you don't know how to spend money. Until you live through hyperinflation, you can't tell me how to spend $1 trillion.<br><br>Seventh, only buildings are worth $1 trillion. The Empire State building cost $1.1 billion to build in the 1930s. Accounting for inflation, that would be about $25 billion in today's money. But it was $1.1 billion in the 1930s. In the 1930s, you could build 1,000,000,000 / 1,100,000,000 = .91 Empire State buildings for $1 trillion.<br><br>Eighth, what if the government spent $1 trillion every year for the last 18 years? Then the government spent 18 * $1 trillion = $18 trillion. But who cares? It's not real money. It's just a number. $18 trillion isn't that much when you think about it. $18 trillion invested at a 1% annual return for 18 years at compounding interest would be like $25 trillion. Tell me you didn't earn $25 trillion in passive income over the last 18 years. Tell me you didn't invest $18 trillion 18 years ago and earn a 1% annual return so that now you have $25 trillion. You invested $18 trillion 18 years ago, you earned $7 trillion in interest, and now you have $25 trillion. See what I mean? $18 trillion isn't that big of a deal when you think about it.<br><br>Ninth, you don't make $1 trillion. You don't make $100 billion. Hell, you don't even make $100,000,000. Most people don't make $10,000,000. Very few people make $1,000,000,000. But we all spend $1,000,000,000,000. You want to shit on the poor for receiving $1,000,000,000 in food stamps every year? Why do you get to shit on the poor when you yourself receive $1,000,000,000,000 in government aid every year? I'm not defending the poor. I'm defending me. I don't get $1,000,000,000 in food stamps every year, but I do get $1,000,000,000,000 in government aid every year. Food for my belly, food for my soul. It's all food stamps.<br><br>Tenth, the $1,000,000,000,000 in food stamps you received last year is nothing in the grand scheme. The $1,000,000,000,000,000 in government aid you'll receive every year for the next 1,000 years is nothing in the grand scheme. If you live 1,000 years, then after receiving $1,000,000,000,000,000 a year for 1,000 years, you'll only have received a paltry $1,000,000,000,000,000,000. $1 quintillion. You'll still be making the same $50,000 a year from your job, but you'll also have $1 quintillion. $1 quintillion is as worthless as $1 trillion. $1 quintillion spent over 1,000 years is merely $1 trillion a year. 3% of the federal budget. 1% of your annual investment, remember? You'll have already earned $7 trillion in interest on your $18 trillion passive investment anyway, so your net gain over 1,000 years will be $987 quintillion. So $1 quintillion is nothing.<br><br>&#x200B;