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[–] epyon22@programming.dev 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Average net worth for 35-44 year olds $135 thousand his net worth $119.2 billion. $5 equivalent for him is ~$4,414,814.81

[–] Dagrothus@reddthat.com 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

If you skinned and sold squirrels at a rate of 7.56 squirrels per second, you'd reach his wealth in just 100 years! All it takes is a little hard work!

They'd also go extinct after 1 year. Maybe switch to rats.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

You could alternate between rats and squirrels to allow repopulation

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Rats don't have bushy tails, so you'd lose most of the value.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Even if you don't end up rich, eradicating squirrels is a pretty good consolation prize.

[–] epyon22@programming.dev 20 points 2 years ago

He can buy a super car with less impact on his net worth than you standing there wondering what to get out of the vending machine

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where did you find that average net worth for 35-44 year olds? That seems much higher than I expected. What's the median?

[–] epyon22@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, you actually shared the median. The average is $1.06 million. I guess I know some broke-ass people, and am one myself. Almost everyone I know is well below those numbers.

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Outliers are undoubtedly massively skewing the average.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Then they dare to go buy some fucking avocado toast and a mokke lattchiato or whatever the hell, on their fucking bikes with THEIR FUCKING HELMET ON!

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 years ago

Don't buy avacado toast, make it.

Shits cheap af

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dude literally just find more dead squirrels for avocado toast money, it's that simple

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

No, you don't understand the problem with avocado toast. You see, bread is a great source of carbs, and combined with the rind of the avocado, the scraps are a super food that leaves squirrels full of energy and with a thick coat that makes them neigh immortal

When's the last time you saw a dead squirrel ripe for the picking? It was free money

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Peter1986C@lemmings.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

🤣 Thanks for repeating Abraham Lincoln's advice.

[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

i love how Lincoln has become the de facto one

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As someone that's shot a few squirrels for tying flies with, I'd just buy the damn tails. Squirrels are filthy little beasts and have a pile of parasites that crawl off them when they're dead.

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You evil bastard. How could you? They're so cute!

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

They can be destructive fuckers. And, little known fact, red squirrels are the largest predator of juvenile rabbits.

Tasty, tasty rabbits.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

"There's only one way to eat a brace of connies."

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A squirrel tore up one of our lawn chair cushions to make its nest. Little piece of shit. Then bits of lawn chair stuffing blew all over the neighborhood that winter.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I was wondering why I wasn't getting telemetry from my watering bowls and started tracking down the issue. I had leaned a pole with a LoRa antenna up against a tree, and one of the little bastards chewed the line through in about a dozen spots. If they get in the soffet of a house they'll tear all the insulation out, then store thousands of spruce cones in there, making a lovely fire hazard.

Hate them almost as much as mice.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Squirrels are pretty high in cholesterol.

[–] magicalman315@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Thank you Catherine

[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Free cholesterol!

[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Sell it bro. eBay.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

So you're saying Americans would love it.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Now you got a stew goin’

[–] outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Do we have a vulture culture sublemmy?

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't have to chop, stew, dismember, or sell a $5 bill. False equivalency argument.

[–] somtwo@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, I can read. And see where it's posted.

Doesn't mean I can't debunk a theoretical argument.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe -1 points 2 years ago

only the top 1% of IQs can debunk internet satire

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe -1 points 2 years ago

i think you ate the onion on c/theonion lol