An Economical Number of Stars

Or, Our Galaxy of Debt

From Justin Kim’s Notes on Facebook:

Quote from Physicist Richard Feynman: “There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”

Through a wholesale clearance-rate sell-off of the suns in our galaxy, the U.S. Government could gradually pull out of debt.

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