Whereismysociety on October 18th, 2020 at 08:14 UTC »
Is there a legitimate big policy idea that could reverse our national debt or is this just accepted collateral with “growth”.
The_Celtic_Chemist on October 18th, 2020 at 09:38 UTC »
Without doing the math, I'm fairly certain it wouldn't make a single pixel's difference if you rounded up to the nearest dollar.
Calvin_v_Hobbes on October 18th, 2020 at 10:01 UTC »
I feel like "down to the penny" and "every day" are unnecessary levels of precision. Each pixel represents tens of billions of dollars (25e12 / 988) in height, and about a week (25*365/1552) in width.
![image showing U.S. Debt, calculated down to the penny every day for the last 26 years, alongside GDP [OC]](de22eb0e-d7ca-5c91-b2c8-760e30ca984f.jpg)
Whereismysociety on October 18th, 2020 at 08:14 UTC »
Is there a legitimate big policy idea that could reverse our national debt or is this just accepted collateral with “growth”.
The_Celtic_Chemist on October 18th, 2020 at 09:38 UTC »
Without doing the math, I'm fairly certain it wouldn't make a single pixel's difference if you rounded up to the nearest dollar.
Calvin_v_Hobbes on October 18th, 2020 at 10:01 UTC »
I feel like "down to the penny" and "every day" are unnecessary levels of precision. Each pixel represents tens of billions of dollars (25e12 / 988) in height, and about a week (25*365/1552) in width.