xkcd on money

Things that leapt out at me from xkcd #980:

• $5.63 — daily interest on average credit card debt
• $110.30 — average monthly cost of a smartphone bill.
• $1,820 — one Starbucks latte per day
• $3,050 — a daily pack of cigarettes for a year (NJ)
• ~$4M — amount needed to live comfortably off investments
• tobacco
• ~$11B — annual US spending on lung cancer treatment
• ~$14B — annual US spending on tobacco marketing
• ~$90B — annual US spending on tobacco products
• misc
• the annual cost of owning a dog vs. a cat is roughly the same
• the average hourly wage for a production worker has stayed roughly the same since 1965, but CEO pay during that time has increased over 1000%

Randall is my hero.