AllanCrossman comments on The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop worrying and create one billion dollars out of nothing

[AllanCrossman]

Would like some argument to the effect that such a thing would in fact raise a sum as high as 10^9 dollars.

[Eh, I can take being voted down as well as the next man, but seriously, one needs to know that the numbers are roughly correct.]