{"id":10605,"date":"2014-02-27T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10605"},"modified":"2014-03-01T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T18:52:10","slug":"comparisons-that-will-change-how-you-think-about-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/comparisons-that-will-change-how-you-think-about-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparisons That Will Change How You Think About Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/022714_1214_Comparisons1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"579\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cracked runs Photoshop contests where readers are invited to send in funny submissions based on various prompts. Yesterday&#8217;s prompt was &#8220;Shocking Comparisons That Change How You Think of Money&#8221;. Some of the more interesting entries included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>German hyper-inflation meant that in mid-1922 it cost 2 marks to send a domestic letter. At the end of 1923 it cost 100,000,000,000 to send the same letter.<\/li>\n<li>Russia spent $8.7 billion to build a highway to a mountain in Sochi. This was more than the budget of the entire 2010 winter Olympics.<\/li>\n<li>The band Aerosmith made more money from Guitar Hero royalties than it did from any of its albums or world tours.<\/li>\n<li>Producing a gram of anti-matter costs $62.5 trillion dollars.<\/li>\n<li>One drug lord was smuggling so much money he had to spend $2,500 a month on rubber bands for his cash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article has 23 of these facts and includes points about Bill Gates&#8217; incredible philanthropy, thoughts about the richest sports person in history, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/photoplasty_809_23-shocking-comparisons-that-change-how-you-think-money_p2\/?view=article\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/photoplasty_809_23-shocking-comparisons-that-change-how-you-think-money_p2\/?view=article\">Cracked<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cracked runs Photoshop contests where readers are invited to send in funny submissions based on various prompts. Yesterday&#8217;s prompt was &#8220;Shocking Comparisons That Change How You Think of Money&#8221;. Some of the more interesting entries included: German hyper-inflation meant that in mid-1922 it cost 2 marks to send a domestic letter. At the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/022714_1214_Comparisons1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10608,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605\/revisions\/10608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}