I saw this number on another post about the same article. And the original math was something like 10 million is 1% of a billion. And Bezos is worth ~250 billion.

So 10 million would be 1/250 of 1% of his wealth. And i did the math to see what that would amount to for a normal person.

If you have $100k in total (savings, investing, properties etc), 1% would be $1000. And 1/250 of that is $4.

So if Bezos was someone who had around $100k in total, the amount he was asked to pay to clean up the entire towns shit is $4.

Someone please check my math.

Not an American. But I’ve heard the same explanation. And it does make sense to me.

However, why do Americans say “Fourth of July” then?

I fully agree with the content OP posted.

But I cannot help myself.

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As someone in academia who writes code, I can confirm.