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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2024
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A Boring Dystopia
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Uh, you're off by a factor of 10 there. Population of the US is closer 330 million, so it'd be 5.7%
Oh fuck me I missed that zero. Thanks, this is what I get for doing all that math on my phone scratch pad
Well, I’ll just grab the top 50 cities and it’s the same point.
The whole point is a shit load of people live in a very tiny space relative to the total size of the country as a whole. This drives online conversion around how expensive things are since online we actually interact with people from all over