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Money Amount Debates

Commenters debate whether specific dollar amounts ranging from thousands to billions are surprisingly low, high, cheap, or insignificant relative to the context, effort, impact, or scale involved.

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EDIT USD SEC NOPE million lot money money dollars billions 100k sounds like lot worth 5000 quite lot

Sample Comments

idiot900 • Dec 1, 2013 • View on HN

Seems like a tiny amount of money for something that would be worth quite a lot to them...

nitwit005 • Apr 30, 2025 • View on HN

If tens of billions of dollars isn't a meaningful amount, can you give it to me?

keltecp11 • Dec 16, 2009 • View on HN

$5000 is a lot of money for this... isn't it?

underdown • Feb 2, 2011 • View on HN

Am I the only person thinking $50 million seems low?

xeromal • Apr 21, 2022 • View on HN

That's an incredible amount of money to burn. Thanks for looking that up!

sonicggg • Mar 13, 2022 • View on HN

More than USD$75K? I find it hard to believe.

thoughtstheseus • Jun 24, 2020 • View on HN

Maybe $1 million is not enough.

samfisher83 • Nov 23, 2020 • View on HN

1000-1300 sounds like a lot of money.

SteveNuts • May 16, 2018 • View on HN

I'm surprised it's not in the billions, to be honest.

consp • Dec 16, 2021 • View on HN

Please do realize 200$ is quite a lot of money for many people.