Eric Tells Will About The Bridge He Built Back In The Day | Margin Call 

"Tell me you're good with numbers without telling me"

I think this point goes to show how he built something that has intrinsic value to society, whilst the 'products' the firm and other firms create don't add much value but sure does make them rich in the short term. Longevity vs short term thinking..

Every Engineer has an Eric Dale inside him that just gets stifled as he moves up the ladder.

Eric is a power of 10 off the final total. Eric stated he once built a bridge over the Ohio river and it was used by 12,100 people (he probably meant cars) per day and it cutout 70 miles per day. 1. He said it saved a combined total of 847,000 miles per day. (12,100 × 70) 2. And 25,410,000 miles per month. (847,000 × 30) 3. And 304,920,000 per year. (25,410,000 × 12) 4. And 6,708,240,000 miles saved over the 22 year lifetime of the bridge. (304,920,000 × 22) 5. At an average of 50 mph in 22 years it has meant 134,164,800 less hours of people spending time in traffic. (6,708,240,000 miles ÷ 50mph) 6. And 5,590,200 days.** (134,164,800 ÷ 24) 7. And 15,315 years.** (5,590,200 ÷ 365) **Is where this mistakes are made. He stated this as 559,020. Which shorted his final answer by a power of 10 as well.

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rumour says there was someone behind camera holding the scrypt for him to read the numbers :D and I don't blame him for that :D

I've been on that bridge. It's OK.

Measure a life in love.

"two hundred and six billion....." "five hundred and twenty nine thousand...." "seventy two million and fifty five thousand...." nice clip.

"Enjoying driving the long way home" only works when you have the privilege to choose it. They should have made his convertible stuck in the traffic and losing the meeting.

The dumbest line (this is my all time favorite movie) is when Will says, "Some people like driving the long way home"......NOOOOOO WRONG. hehe. I mean unless you hate your spouse or something. 😂😂

Some people like driving a long way home.. I am some people

I'm from Moundsville, WV and remember the bridge being built that he spoke of. He mispronounced Dilles Bottom, Ohio though. It is pronounced like Dill-ies Bottom.

I crossed that bridge!

Eric would make out just fine. He would never to tainted by the sell off and could find work easily after all this happened. Its all the other people that are screwed.

6.7 billion undriven miles x 1.5 deaths/100 million miles driven = 100 lives saved.

But how did that bridge get financed? This way.

Will: " Hookers and cocaine"

That's good math...

audio is low or me

lol hollywoods idea of an engineer. in their head he would memorize to the last decimal place when in reality as an engineer you need to get the bigger picture. you just need to be right at the scale like if it's 16milion or if its 600k or if its 6bilion. It would not be that an engineer would go and memorize one milion four hundred-thousand sixty-eight thousand three-hundred and five. He would just need to be in the ballpark area of that and say 1,4 milion.

This is the great tragedy of fiat money. You don't make money by producing something of value. You make money by standing near the printing press.

The audio quality is terrible.

Maybe the long way home had a better view, Maybe the long way home was the only time some tired guy that left his office after 8 hours of work, managed to have peace and calm while driving and meditating tru that road, Maybe it had mountains, water, and trees, And was for some 50 yo guy a trip down memory lane tru his childhood and tru nostalgia, cuz he used to pass that road since he was a kid with his father. .... Maybe and maybe. You never know the other side of the story. " facts dont exist, only interpretations" _ Metal gear solid v the phantom pain_