Laurel: If you divided up all the money in the world evenly, how much money would each person get?
Anna: How do you figure out how much money there is in the world? It's constantly fluctuating.
Laurel: Yes, but you could approximate.
Anna: How? What would it be called, the quantity you're looking for? Dollars in circulation? GNP? What quantity expresses the worth of all the money in the world at this moment?
Laurel: Google it!
Anna: I don't even know what to google!
Laurel: Someone else has to have thought about this already. I'm going to google "Approximately how much money is there in the world this second." (
We wait .27 seconds.) Hmmm.
Anna: If you do dollars in circulation, does that include the value of the stock market? (
Raising voice) What
is the stock market exactly? Doesn't its worth change, like, every minute?
Laurel: Stop yelling!
Anna: I'm not yelling! (
Anna stews in her complete inability to wrap her head around the most basic concepts of macro-economics. Laurel continues to fiddle with google.)
Laurel: Here it is! (
Reading aloud)
"Just for fun, I tried to calculate the wealth of the entire planet, and see how rich/poor each person would be if we simply divided the world's wealth by the world's population (six billion people)."Anna: WHAT!?
Laurel (
satisfied): I knew someone on the internet would have figured it out.
*Real commies would probably not have been so excited to go to Kohl's this morning for the Early Bird Sale.
