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So, over 300 million people enjoying a once in a lifetime natural event cost "the economy" about as much money as a typical CEO steals in a day?
Sounds like misdirected anger.
Way less than 300 million. The entirety of the West Coast had 50% occlusion or less, and as XKCD pointed out last week, that isn't even noticable.
I'm only pointing this out to point out that they are bitching about a fraction of the country, and less than a percent of the so called economy.
Tbh my family drove 10 hours to see it and we skipped two days of work.
and so, spent money to travel and presumably stay someplace and eat food which actually might be a net gain to the economy given (we assume) the days off work were PTO time that would have been taken anyway?
I 100% agree with the post and the comments. But we stayed at my MIL's house and ate mostly BBQ from her deep freezer meat supply. I took PTO, my husband did not. The only real gain was Quality of Life, which I have absolutely no guilt about.