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heyitsanewacco · 2022-03-31 13:04:35

1% is a lot... why can't people deal with percentages of large numbers? Its COVID all over again. 1% of 7 billion is 70 million. Thats ten holocausts!

Supply and demand means I won't go hungry, but less valuable people absolutely will. Like the Ukranians during the holodomor...

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seunosewa | karma 1595 | avg karma 2.06 · | 2020-03-19 07:03:44+00:00

1% of 7 billion is 70 million, so its 100 times worse than you thought.

middleload | karma 22 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2019-11-28 14:03:37

Just for perspective: 1% of 1 billion is 10 millions. That's a lot of people and then some.

clamprecht | karma 3482 | avg karma 5.97 · | 2015-08-28 16:08:31+00:00

But if you multiply that 0.000001% by 7 billion people, what do you get?

lxa2 | karma 4 | avg karma 0.8 · | 2016-01-23 07:02:51+00:00

the 0.1% could be hundreds of thousands of people?

throwaway22032 | karma 3089 | avg karma 2.21 · | 2024-03-25 02:07:04

7 million people is 0.1% of the population.

Approximately 1% of the population die per year.

You think that's a big number, but it's not. People die.

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langsoul-com | karma 1206 | avg karma 1.95 · | 2022-03-09 23:52:37

Even so, 1-2% of 1 billion people is 10 million people...

maratd | karma 6296 | avg karma 3.2 · | 2015-02-19 21:17:47+00:00

> 70 million people is a lot of people.

So one person isn't a lot of people ... are you saying one person is negligible? That one person's life doesn't matter?

Two can play this game.

1% is 1%. Every life is important, but 1% is still 1%. And 1% is not a lot. Whether it's people, apples, or pencils doesn't matter. It's a ratio.

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ido | karma 7058 | avg karma 2.27 · | 2020-03-30 05:36:52

1% of the world's population is almost 800m people. That's >10x the death-toll of WW2 (which took 6 years to achieve).

chris_wot | karma 14762 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2016-04-12 12:35:59+00:00

1% of 1.357 billion people is about thirteen and a half million people.

Time for me to stop reading headlines literally.

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webXL | karma 983 | avg karma 1.31 · | 2023-01-02 13:35:25

I'm inclined to agree, but can you please clarify "a lot less than one billion"?

wlesieutre | karma 23325 | avg karma 4.49 · | 2018-09-25 20:51:27+00:00

I mean 0.000001% of 7.5 billion is 75, and that you'd really need a bigger percent of the world population than that. Pretty sure I have the math right.

adrianN | karma 29995 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2020-03-16 07:56:53+00:00

1% of humanity is something like 75 million people. That's plenty of people to correspond and work together with.

celticninja | karma 5517 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2022-01-22 09:38:08

1 percent of the world population is 78 million people, that is many, even if you try to make it seem small by using percent. Each of those people were a member of a family, a mother, brother, father, son or similar to someone.

But by your reckoning it's not many, and given Hitler killed 6 million Jews, which is a lot less than 78 million, he didn't kill that many either.

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Izikiel43 | karma 536 | avg karma 1.65 · | 2022-07-07 14:50:44

Yes.

7 billion people => 7000 Million.

1% of that, 70 Million.

Population of australia, 25.7 Million people. So not only less than 1%, less than 0.5%

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mikl | karma 3080 | avg karma 4.99 · | 2021-09-07 13:27:20

When talking about the world, one of 8 billion people, 0.5% is a massive figure.

Ygor | karma 702 | avg karma 5.12 · | 2011-10-31 17:19:51+00:00

In a world with 7 billion people, even if you are one in a million, there are still 7 thousand people just like you.

chaps | karma 3246 | avg karma 3.72 · | 2022-07-10 01:37:42

This attitude is exactly why things won't change. .1% of the world is still 7 million people.

BrandoElFollito | karma 4414 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2017-05-31 18:54:39+00:00

A poet (Polish?) once said that "one million and one is still one million" (IIRC he was talking about Stalin rulings and the number of victims, and that a single life does not weight much in such times, but I am not sure)

ulfw | karma 4213 | avg karma 2.08 · | 2020-01-01 16:48:04+00:00

Billions = 99% of the population. Oh I see. Okay.