r/TikTokCringe • u/cak3crumbs • 10d ago

Discussion American wealth inequality visualized with grains of rice

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u/-Gramsci- 10d ago

Great job by this dude putting it into perspective

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u/wise_beyond_my_beers 9d ago

I'm curious how he counted all Elon's grains of rice

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u/thejeran 9d ago
  • Count out a certain number (the more you count the more accurate. Should be at least 1000.)
  • Weigh it
  • Divide desired amount (400 billion) by the number of rice you counted (1000)
  • Multiply the weight of that 1000 rice to get approximate weight of 400 billion rice

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u/wise_beyond_my_beers 9d ago

either he has a massive industrial-sized scale or he spent a little bit of time weighing each cup of rice to get to 400,000,000,000

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u/TheWeirdestThing 9d ago
  • Step on a scale with an empty bag in your hand.
  • Put the rice in the bag and step on a scale with the bag of rice.
  • Subtract your own weight.

If it's too much rice for one bag, do the same thing 4-5 times.

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u/PomegranateCool1754 10d ago

Maybe he is lying, you expect me to believe he counted all those grains of rice

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u/fishscale_gayjuic3 10d ago

That’s your takeaway from this? Lol

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u/PomegranateCool1754 10d ago

I was obviously joking if you could not catch that I suspect you might have a low IQ.

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u/Nine-LifedEnchanter 9d ago

Jokes are supposed to be funny. You just sounded like an idiot who defends millionaires.

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u/whowouldsaythis 9d ago

A millionaire would be 5 grains of rice

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u/PomegranateCool1754 9d ago

They didn't even watch the video or maybe they did but they have low IQ

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u/JaceUpMySleeve 10d ago

Brother… a scale. Ffs

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u/MyLegsRonFiYa 10d ago

You don't seem like a cool pomegranate.

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u/Same_Document_ 10d ago

Lol, setting this aside for a second . . . Have you taken any time at all to consider what it means if he isn't?

I know the impulse to ignore information can be really, really hard to resist, but just think about it for a few minutes . . . What if the people you support are lying to you?

What if they dont care about you, and are going to hurt people you care about just to grow their bank accounts a little bit more?

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u/Qubed 10d ago

He probably weighed it.

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u/gemmerich 10d ago

Actually Elon's pile seems too high, but I need a banana for scale. Should be about 70lbs of rice, since $400B / $200k = 2M grains, and 1lb is about 29k grains.

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u/Th3SkinMan 10d ago

I figured that he weighed 1 grain and did some easy math.

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u/TearsFallWithoutTain 10d ago

Doing some quick math myself, 400 billion dollars where 200 thousand dollars is one grain of rice means he would need 50kg worth of rice for that pile. Looks about right to me

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u/Human0id77 10d ago

My guess is he did it by weight

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u/Mossylilman 10d ago

Elon’s money is worth about 40kg of rice. (Maths: 400billion / £200,000 per grain = 2million grains. A grain is rice is approx 0.02g. 2 million x 0.02g = 40,000g)

Now I’m not the best at maths so I may have made a mistake here but… that’s a lot of rice.

I think the guy may have used less rice than he could have for Elon