Oh now this is art

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That’s less than a grand per cat.

In 1891 those cats were richer than almost anyone alive.

Yeah, it’s around 36k in today’s $ per cat. That’s a years worth of work

If you keep all the money. How long do you have to work to save 36k? For me it would be 3 years.

Around 360 Months

So, in your case it would be 30 years of work. 😬







You guys know how hard it is to get that many cats to sit still for a painting?

My first thought when seeing this.



Less than 1000 a cat. so what $100 a year on average or something. Not really all that much.

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.

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.

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)






Peak cat lady. I love it!


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named birdsall
is cat lady

that’s how she lured all the cats you know


These days that’s barely enough for 7.5 cats

less than 10k per cat. That’s probably enough to feed for 2-3 years and then put down.



350 cats is a lot of cats, but hey, we all have our thing.


I can’t find a US inflation calculator that goes back further than 1913, and Johnson died in 1893, but if she’d died 20 years later, it would have been the equivalent of $1.1m.


Channeling Barker’s charm: remember to spay and neuter your pets! (Don’t hug the host.)


Wow early access mewgenics

The 350 cats seems like a lot. I have 74. Such a noob.




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