And then the baby is forced into bankruptcy because Q4 results were below expectations
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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Father is given 500 million golden parachute and retires to his 19th yacht.
That's just the reality of exponential, compound growth. But of course no society would ever think such growth could be sustained permanently...
basing one's economy off of infinite growth? ahahaha no one would ever do that
xkcd made notice of the same issue with weddings!
Shouldn't this take into account that all the hundreds of days prior to yesterday she also had zero husbands, so at that slow of increase, things should remain steady for a long while.
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This, of course, is a ridiculous extrapolation. By focusing on the rate of change (doubling) every three months we of course get an absurd result.
Instead, if we simply extrapolate the absolute growth per unit time then assuming the baby went from 10 lbs at birth to 20 lbs at three months (doubling), and we have 40 such time units until age 10, then we get a much more reasonable expected growth to 400 lbs. Which of course is much more reasonable for a 10 year old. Totally reasonable.
I love statistics.
Working backwards: 7,500,000,000,000 pounds / 2^[(4 three-month periods per year)*(10 years)] = 6.8lb baby