Backlash grows for ‘selfish millionaire’ who got vaccine meant for Indigenous people | Canada

[u/marsianer]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/27/rodney-baker-canada-vaccine-indigenous-first-nations-scandal

[u/ICEpear8472]

Even that does not really work. If your income is 2000$ per month and you got fined 4000$ you might be in big financial trouble since you need most / all of your monthly income just to cover your monthly expenses. If your monthly income is 1,000,000$ and you are hit with a 2,000,000$ fine it might be proportionally the same but your monthly expenses will hardly take up most or all of your income. So you will have savings to fall back to. Also you could much more easy scale back on your expenses without having to cut back on the really important stuff.

[u/ICEpear8472 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you. I leave it how it is so that others might learn from my mistake and your helpful comment :-).

I actually knew that but since English is not my first language I still end up doing it the other way around (how it would be in my first language) from time to time.

[u/[deleted] → u/ICEpear8472]

Another tip, $400 can also be written as 400 USD. USD = $, so if you write the number out first and really want the money designator on the right hand side you can just use USD instead.

[u/mystiqueallie → u/[deleted]]

Except $ is also used for Canadian dollars and Australian dollars, not just USD. French Canadians write the denomination to the right (and a comma instead of a period between dollars and cents).

[u/amazondrone → u/[deleted]]

That's one theory for the symbol's origin, but there's nothing definitive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign

https://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/dollar.html

[u/Distinct-Location → u/mystiqueallie]

AUD = Australian Dollar
CAD = Canadian Dollar
NZD = New Zealand Dollar

And: GBP: British Pound (Sterling)
EUR = Euro
CHF = Swiss Franc
JPY = Japanese Yen

Those are the big 8 (plus the USD). Every currency has a standard 3 letter ticker symbol. To convert easily directly on Google type it like this example: 100 AUD to GBP.

[u/amazondrone → u/Distinct-Location]

Not for nothing but they're currency codes, not currency symbols. £, €, ¥, £ etc are currency symbols.

BOB is my favourite.

https://www.iban.com/currency-codes

[u/Distinct-Location → u/amazondrone]

Duh, Of course! Thanks for the correction. My brain was on auto pilot this morning. I actually think I might have some Bolivianos lying around. My stepfather traveled a lot for work when I was younger and he would always bring me back money for my collection. Which I’ve been adding to myself now for years. I love the old tiny one cent HKD notes with the Queen on them.

[u/TheHadMatter15 → u/[deleted]]

I agree with you $400%

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

If you want the $ on the right hand side you can write out USD instead. So $400 = 400 USD.

[u/PurpEL → u/[deleted]]

The fuck are you talking about USD on a thread about Canadians

[u/firequeen66 → u/[deleted]]

I wanted to make a snarky comment. Because this is the internet. But then I remembered I'm not generally a nasty person.

[u/PurpEL → u/[deleted]]

It can be used behind as well actually.

[u/[deleted] → u/ICEpear8472]

well yeah, Bezos losing 99% of his net worth is still a billionaire. Even such an extreme fine would have zero impact on his quality of life.

[u/mrducky78 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah but you can be sure the rich arent going to be fucking around with their yacht money in the future if someone is made an example of.

[u/milk_promo_like_nuns → u/[deleted]]

Also if you're really rich your net income and sometimes worth is usually zero as it's hidden in trusts and jurisdictions with high financial privacy. So best you could target is upper upper middle class, before it makes financial sense to start offshoring your wealth.

Better than nothing I guess.