This cartoon is splendid. It tells us how Altman thinks of himself.
More importantly it reveals our basic brain structure. A single little 0 doesn’t cause dissonance. We feel it as nothing and we calculate it as nothing. A BIG zero like 0,000,000,000,000 feels BIG, even though our language processor tells us it’s still nothing. The feeling induced by the BIG set of digits overwhelms the weak rational language processor.
Polistra's Mill 