Scrooge mcduck discovers bankruptcy

I have a working theory that Donald Duck comics never got popular in the US because of the ever-present scathing critique of capitalism

In Italy, for some reason, Mickey Mouse comics (including a lot of Donald Duck stories) are SUPER popular, Donald's depicted as always in debt, losing any job he can get and going on extreme life-threatening adventures with Scrooge just to get a cent off his uncle's debt list, but nobody uses this to actually think that this might be a real world problem and brushes it off as an exaggeration. Are Italians (including me) blind?
They're not!? Colour me surprised!
Super popular in Sweden, at least when I grew up.
- Donald got comics in Sweden that characterized him completely differently than how he's shown in the US. I think he's a much better character there.
The Duck Tales show where he's the good guy did really well tho
- That's because he was shown to care about a few people he was related to without needing to give up his vast amount of wealth.
- Funny thing is, I feel like the new Ducktales series is the closest TV representation of the comics-versions of the characters. They change some things (most crucially they give Huey, Dewey and Louie individual personality traits), but overall it really feels like watching the European comic books come to life. Scrooge is still too much of a good guy, where in the comics he's often a kind of villain.
That would sadly explain it. We only recently got out of the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire phase and only because we were basically forced to.

$310,000,000,000,000,000. Quadrillion is a lot.

Quackdrillion, in this case.
- That’s a ducking good joke.
- That’s a ducking good joke.
Now adjust for inflation. The comic was published in 1989. $1 then is $2.48 today. That's a cumulative price increase of 148.22%, or an average price increase of 2.71% per year for 34 years. It is 4:30am, I am on a shuttle bus, and I am not showing any signs of going to sleep anytime soon.
- So that motherfucker has almost a quintillion dollars.
  What the fuck did he do, conquer Ceres?
- He rounded down the number for some reason. This is how much money Scrooge McDuck has, $315,576,000,000,000,000. That is with leap years included.
- Inflation is likely higher, since McDuck has way more of the cake than realistic.
That man is single handedly funding the Disney cartoons universe
They did the math.
- And today specifically, they did the monster math.
Let's see, you posted this about 19 hours ago, starting value was 315 with a bunch of zeros... yeah someone else can do the math, but I think our buddy scrooge will be just fine.
Yeah, this could be done better and would still send a message without unnecessary exaggeration.
- Are you suggesting that Scrooge McDuck's net worth is less than $310 quadrillion? Second question: how do you know?
- Bro, it's a comic. They're not trying to send a message, it's supposed to be ridicilous.
- I mean, THE main character traits of Scrooge McDuck are that he's stingy and absolutely ludicrously filthy rich.
- It is a comic done for kids. There is no message, except entertaining them and selling comics.
- I'd like to see you swim in a giant money bin with less than $310 quadrillion.
- It does get the message through though because it's just about feelings not about some actual danger.

Nobody is actually this wealthy, it implies Scrooge McDuck has more than 525 trillion dollars.
Elon could only lose a half million dollars every minute if he was going broke in 600 years.
Edit I screwed up my math someone correct me
- That's off by a bit:
  600 years * 365 days/year * 24 hours/day * 60 minutes/hour = 315,360,000 minutes
  315,360,000 minutes * $1,000,000,000/minute = $315,360,000,000,000,000 or $315 Quadrillon
  For Musk:
  $225.5B current NW
  $225,500,000,000 / 315,360,000 minutes = $715/minute

Oh no, how will he be able to swim in his coin vault if that happens?

Well, he has a position to uphold; what about future generations growing up with a broke Scrooge.

When Russ Hanneman dropped down to two commas.

What's with the three circles on his face?

That's social commentary.
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