According to the first inflation calculator I found, adjusted for inflation in today dollars thats $3,682.67/cat/yr, and I think thats probably plenty.
I did some rough math and they’d eat about one cow every 4 days on average, or a herd of about 100 adult cows per year, assuming that was their only food source which seems unlikely when chicken or game birds are cheaper, easier, they eat garbage food and their production rate is almost 1:1 feed to meat. Plus far more available to say nothing of egg and mice/rats, which are also easy to raise on garbage food. I just don't want to do the math when I already went for cows for whatever reason.
Whomever inherited responsibility for those cats (I’m guessing servants, since thats who was caring for them to begin with, lets be real) was probably incredibly thankful for the substantial wealth transfer for their loyalty. That used to happen back in the day. Rich people wanted to be remembered for giving their riches away. So many public works and private wealth transfers are a result of this post-humous restoration of their image. (It wasn’t enough to deprive their offspring, of course)
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istdaslol@feddit.org · 29 pts · 45d
That’s less than a grand per cat.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 44 pts · 45d
In 1891 those cats were richer than almost anyone alive.
istdaslol@feddit.org · 30 pts · 45d
Yeah, it’s around 36k in today’s $ per cat. That’s a years worth of work
clucose@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 45d
If you keep all the money. How long do you have to work to save 36k? For me it would be 3 years.
istdaslol@feddit.org · 4 pts · 45d
Around 360 Months
clucose@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 45d
So, in your case it would be 30 years of work. 😬
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 45d
You guys know how hard it is to get that many cats to sit still for a painting?
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 44d
My first thought when seeing this.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 12 pts · 45d
Less than 1000 a cat. so what $100 a year on average or something. Not really all that much.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 45d
According to the first inflation calculator I found, adjusted for inflation in today dollars thats $3,682.67/cat/yr, and I think thats probably plenty.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 45d
yeah. although I think fair for whoever is getting it to take care of 300 cats. Granted in 10 or 20 years they will be sitting pretty.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 44d
I did some rough math and they’d eat about one cow every 4 days on average, or a herd of about 100 adult cows per year, assuming that was their only food source which seems unlikely when chicken or game birds are cheaper, easier, they eat garbage food and their production rate is almost 1:1 feed to meat. Plus far more available to say nothing of egg and mice/rats, which are also easy to raise on garbage food. I just don't want to do the math when I already went for cows for whatever reason.
Whomever inherited responsibility for those cats (I’m guessing servants, since thats who was caring for them to begin with, lets be real) was probably incredibly thankful for the substantial wealth transfer for their loyalty. That used to happen back in the day. Rich people wanted to be remembered for giving their riches away. So many public works and private wealth transfers are a result of this post-humous restoration of their image. (It wasn’t enough to deprive their offspring, of course)
StillAlive@piefed.world · 9 pts · 45d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Wife%27s_Lovers
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 45d
Wikipedia says it was 500k
CluckN@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 45d
She owned 500,000 cats???
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 45d
Did I stutter?
ickplant@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 45d
Peak cat lady. I love it!