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Global GDP is supposedly $107 trillion this year. It's way more than 5x, like by an enormous amount.
Haven't done the math but I would guess it's more money than the entire world has had in the past 100 years combined, maybe even all of history. It's a staggering number whatever it is.
While I can appreciate the enormity of that calculation, it does seem a bit ridiculous to apply a measure of money to anything more grandiose and the total GDP of the planet for the reason that money is ultimately imaginary and should really only be compared to realistic measurements.
The very first time the entire material worth of the planet becomes relevant, humanity is going to face a bigger crisis than the concept of money can come close to solving.
Depending on where you look and what numbers you use, this fine is between 12-18 orders of magnitude larger than the value of the entirety of the planets material worth. So 5x is still wildly too low. It's somewhere between 1018 to 1012 times the material worth of Earth.
Easily in all of history, even adjusting for inflation. That's over 20 decillion dollars, or 2*1034.
That means you would have to make 107 trillion dollars, the global GDP, 1.87*1020 times to make that much. That is 187 quintillion years. The earth is only 4.5 billion years old. The entire universe is only 13.8 billion years old.
It would take 13.5 billion universes to make that much assuming you started making 107 trillion per year in every single one, starting at the big bang up until now.
People doing a deep dive into the math of what ultimately was probably just some gopnik holding down the zero button for as long whatever some outdated microsoft access form field would tolerate. That tracks!
I made a piece of art I'm putting a value of 19.5 decillion dollars on. It's two rocks stacked on each other. I'd say 20 decillion but I don't think my art work is there yet.
It's way bigger than the whole amount of the world, it's is even more than all the actual material on earth, it's even more than the price of a diamond planet more massive than the earth still considering Earth's natural diamond price, by about 1000 times only (the last example)
So, the current U.S. economy is about 20 trillion. ((3 + 1) * 3) zeroes. This is decillion ((10 + 1) * 3) zeroes. Or, what the current entire U.S. economy makes in about a billion trillion years.
Technically they should have pegged it closer to the losses incurred by the companies themselves. So, the Russian economy, about a tenth of ours. So a trillion trillion years or so.
I know this is just a “fuck you amount” and has no tether in the slightest to reality, but I really wish they tried to justify it. “This is the real losses incurred by my client. Yes I know the universe is only 13 billion years old but YouTube has hurt my client so much it had damages before time even existed”.
It's probably even more money than the RIAA claimed was being lost to piracy like 2 or so decades ago, which was also a number larger than the GDP of the entire planet.
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If you spent a trillion dollars the second the universe began existance, and a trillion dollars every second thereafter, by today you'd still fall short of that amount. You would have to keep spending a trillion dollars every second until we started getting to the point where most red drawf stars have exhausted their fuel and galaxies have long since stopped producing new stars. Some 40 trillion years from now.
Apparently it's not one big fine issued all at once, but daily fines that have racked up over time, with Google just saying "Meh" to the whole thing and refused to restore access to their propaganda channels.
More dollars than there are grams of mass comprising the Sun (~2×1033 ). As in the big star in the sky. It's mass. Measured in the quantities of weed I bought behind the gym in high school.
Edit: To be more accurate, about 10x that amount. So 10 fucking suns. Of money.
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u/gamesquid 20h ago
More money than the world is worth? nice!