Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom...
by xdavidliu on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:48PM
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I'm not parent and I agree that it was not a carefully thought-out comment, but I'll give it a shot.
comment 1: How dare she say 3 million is a sacrifice? That's more money than many of us will see in an entire decade, if not more! None of us can get imagine getting 3 million!
comment 2: Well she could make 10 million, so 3 million to her is chump change.
My guess is as follows: The "us" in comment 1 is the poor, the failure to "read the room" is comment 2 mentioning the 10 million when the vast majority of people identify with comment 1 and thus think mentioning 10 million when even 3 million is unattainable is tone deaf.
Thus, loosely speaking, 10 million is cake, 3 million is bread.
But I agree with you that the analogy is not perfect.
comment 1: How dare she say 3 million is a sacrifice? That's more money than many of us will see in an entire decade, if not more! None of us can get imagine getting 3 million!
comment 2: Well she could make 10 million, so 3 million to her is chump change.
My guess is as follows: The "us" in comment 1 is the poor, the failure to "read the room" is comment 2 mentioning the 10 million when the vast majority of people identify with comment 1 and thus think mentioning 10 million when even 3 million is unattainable is tone deaf.
Thus, loosely speaking, 10 million is cake, 3 million is bread.
But I agree with you that the analogy is not perfect.