The way someone with $100,000,000 would perceive $1000 is how someone with $100,000 would perceive $1.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I read/watch a lot of old mysteries. Up until about 1980, it’s common for writers to put exact amounts of money in the dialogue. They stopped doing that because something that seemed like a lot of money would eventually seem cheap. For instance, Jim Rockford’s $200.00 a day plus expenses doesn’t seem like a lot of money when minimum wage is $120.00 a day. Or the famous $5.00 milkshake in ‘Pulp Fiction.’