[Eddy_Viscosity2]

> you are worth more than like $20 million

Nick pick ahead. I really dislike this phrasing about people's wealth. 'this person is worth $X', when they really mean 'this person has assets valued at $x'. They own things that have monetary value, they themselves are not assessed that monetary value. Some may think this is an innocuous shorthand, but I see it more of a Freudian slip revealing the the actual belief that the rich really are many 1000s or 100000s of times more valuable than other lesser humans.

Try phasing it another way, 'person x is hoarding over $20M in assets'.

[bobbytheblkbear]

"Nick pick ahead" I have to ~nitpick~ your mis-phrasing here. ;)

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

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

You know what, I knew it was wrong when I was typing it but I just couldn't remember what the right way was so I just left it. So thank you for this.

[tstrimple]

Wait. So is this or is this not an eggcorn?

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

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

It was indeed an eggcorn, and I knew it was but it had so completely replaced the correct phrase in my mind that I just looked at it like 'that's not right, but I don't know what exactly is wrong about it'

[Snild]

I hadn't thought about this until I recently saw it (lazily) translated to Swedish literally, where it would traditionally be written more akin to "net fortune".

And yeah, "worth" feels super weird.