Have you ever seen what a million pounds looks like?
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| A Million Pounds |
As we walked down the castle mound
from a festival show in Edinburgh, we passed a window on the Museum on the Mound, and there through a window could be seen a million pounds in notes (fakes I assume) in a display.
Rather than just walk on past, I took a photograph or two, and so now you can see what a million pounds looks like.
Rather than just walk on past, I took a photograph or two, and so now you can see what a million pounds looks like.
And a closer view ......
We then moved on quickly before we were lifted by the police ...... but I then had a weird thought.
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| A Closer Look At A Million Pounds. |
We then moved on quickly before we were lifted by the police ...... but I then had a weird thought.
When I was a kid, being a millionaire meant having what I had just seen, and it equalled a life of luxury. Now a million pounds would mean early retirement, but not a life of luxury. Now you would need about five million pounds to live that same life of material luxury I imagined when a kid.
That's inflation for you.
That's inflation for you.
The funniest illustration of devaluation was in an Austin Powers film when Dr Evil, after travelling forward in time some 30yrs, declares a ransom of One MILLION pounds, and is met with an uneasy silence.
ReplyDeleteI know how he feels, I have to re-evaluate my money winning day dreams .... every decade.
DeleteAnyone old enough to remember Viv 'Spend Spend Spend' Nicholson who won £152,000 pounds in 1961 - which was equivalent to £2.87 million in 2013, adjusted for inflation. That was 'a fortune' then, but now the actual non adjusted amount is virtually nothing.
ReplyDeleteApropos of nothing - A photograph of Ms Nicholson appeared on the cover of 'The Smiths' single "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" - which shows how she fared.
Sadly I am and I do!
DeleteI find it idiotic and immoral to waste more money than someone else could only hope to earn in two lifetimes.
DeleteShe could have lived a very happy and contented life with that money (just the interest alone would have sufficed), but I guess one persons 'prudence' is another persons 'boring'.
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