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Capitalism realized a while ago that a huge swath of young millennials and elder Gen Z are just broke enough to not comfortably start a family or buy a house but just flush with enough cash to fill the emotional holes left by shitty boomer parents with overpriced children’s toys.
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This would’ve cost 18 dollars in 1991
But it’s 9000 pieces
Kind of this, honestly. I skrimpt and saved up my allowance for some expensive-ass LEGO sets when I was a kid and probably the most expensive one was like $150 which is around $350 in today-money, and it sure as shit wasn’t anywhere near 9,000 pieces.
But only the richest kid in the neighborhood would have one.
My estimate is $16. 666666 but I see your point.
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Apparently there’s no way to use a repeating digit at Hexbear.
$16.666666
Well - okay. I guess I had that coming.
I can’t even make a digits vs digit joke because my joke logic doesn’t work. The bar thing isn’t standardized and there’s no Unicode for it. I wonder why that’s the case. That seems very weird to me but I’m not a math guy or a Unicode guy.
I’ve seen 16.(6) in use as well. I wonder how 16.6 renders in the default ui.
edit: Three underscores and it’s quite passable.
Ah!
$16.66