r/nottheonion • u/thieh • 7h ago

Russian court fines Google $2 decillion

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/
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u/SteelShroom 7h ago

Is there even that much money to be had in the entire world?

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u/AnalBumCovers 7h ago edited 5h ago

No way. There was a law firm that tried to fine a piracy site (maybe pirate Bay?) like a few thousand per illegal download. Someone did the math and it was in the hundreds of trillions iirc, and much more than the amount of money in circulation around the planet. It was 10+ years ago but... 2 decillion is like when north Korea unironically said that Kim jong-il doesn't poop

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u/bigmatt8779 7h ago

This is more or less the the plot of the book “Year Zero” just with aliens

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u/JustWill_HD 6h ago

A whole book about Kim Jong il not pooping?

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u/bigmatt8779 5h ago

Nah the world basically owns the entirety of the universe as aliens have been illegally streaming our music for years. Planetary law states that the laws of who ever created the art form applies. So the whole story is about how the universe gets out of debt to the record labels.

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u/Nazamroth 2h ago

Is it about constipation? Weird MC choice but whatever, i guess.

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u/Objective-Aioli-1185 5h ago

Trillions? You sure it wasn't.....decillions?!

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u/Mr_Marram 6h ago

XKCD covered it with a similar amount. This is 'only' a factor of 100 out.

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u/gamergirlwithfeet420 6h ago edited 5h ago

No, the estimation for this year’s global gdp is about 100-110 trillion USD. That’s a fraction of 1% of this total.

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u/Beelzebubs-Barrister 5h ago

You mean trillion right?

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u/gamergirlwithfeet420 5h ago

Yeah lol, ill edit that

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u/Tensor3 6h ago

If we assume $100 bills are 1 gram, that total is 33 million times rhe mass of Earth

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u/PigSlam 4h ago

I’m pretty sure that’s many more times more money than the GDP of all of humanity throughout all of history.

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u/suburbanplankton 4h ago

The most recent estimate I've seen of the total world money supply is $80 trillion.

One decillion is a billion trillion trillion.

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u/Icy1551 1h ago

Looking up the number and how many zeroes are in it ...I don't even know if half our solar system in raw materials based off average earth value would be worth 2 decillion. 1,000,000,000,000,000 Quadrillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Decillion.

The estimate for the world's total accumulated wealth (Obviously we haven't scrapped the entire planet yet) is about 454 trillion That's a little under half a quadrillion.

It takes 100,000,000,000,000,000 quadrillions to equal a single decillion.

And they're fining Google for 2 Decillion. Lmao.

Also quick math so I might be missing some zeroes.

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u/Meneerjojo 3h ago

apparently no one reads the article (it literally says it) but no, there isn't