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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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According to wikipedia, we have around 86 billion neurons in the brain.

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[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So if Elon Musk is really a trillionaire, then one man has more money than neurons.

[–] morto@piefed.social 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Arguably, that specific man would have more money than neurons even if he was poor

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TIL I have more money than Elon Musk has neurons.

[–] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

so...a dollar?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

One might even say: more dollars than sense.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

More money than sense

[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Most USA citizens have more money than neurons if you evaluate it in different currencies. For example, the median networth in the usa is 92,000$ which is about 127 billion iranian rials

[–] morto@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the end, most people can really be billionaires if they change their mindset!

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

Well, their currency.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Correct. Division of money into currency units is entirely arbitrary, there are many currencies where a thousand units is a wildly different amount from a thousand US dollars or euros or similar-valued units.

[–] Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world already said that.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Financial obesity is neurotoxic.

[–] Lydia_K@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Hopefully a lot of it would say, "I'm tired of hanging out in the same old crowded places, I'm gonna go where we're few and far between."

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Bunch of dragons.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They each have dozens of dollars?

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you're willing to engage with the analogy of dollars as neurons, what do you think the economy is thinking about?

edit: I like this because if you think of monetary exchange as neuron activation then the mega-rich hoarding wealth is the biggest inhibition to the ability of the economy to think properly, since their money doesn't participate.

[–] morto@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Hard to know. The imbalance of neuron distribution in that context is very unhealthy and makes it hard to think

[–] OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There's gotta be a cap on wealth accumulation

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Charter Members of the "More Money Than Brains" Club