35 trillion. Hard number to understand even 1 Trillion.
If we relate this to time, 1 trillion SECONDS ago was around 31,000 years ago....just over.
So our national debt using this analogy, could take us back 1.1M years when we where hunting wooly mammoths and sabertooth Tigers for food using grunts and body language to communicate.
Now understanding what the 1 Trillion number sorta is, how can any of todays world tell me your grandkids grandkids grandkids arnt debt slaves?
1.1 million years ago we were not yet hunting woolly mammoths or dealing with saber tooth tigers. None of our ancestors had yet left Africa. The first ancestors of modern humans to leave Africa did so between 80,000 and 60,000 years ago.
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