So I am catching up with One Piece and something in chapter 957 called my attention:
The thing is... these are all just the bounty values according to their wanted posters. It is safe to say that Roger’s bounty hasn’t been updated since he died, 23-24 years ago (why would it?). In other words, we have here the historical value for Roger’s bounty, without applying the inflation rate.
And you cannot convince me that the world of One Piece would not have one or in fact several inflation rates. With so many crises and uncertainties around the world? Being an economist there must be a nightmare.
Now, Big Mom’s and Kaidou’s bounties combined amount to 8.999.100.000 bellies. If we take an annual inflation rate of 2% (which would be quite conservative considering how unstable the Grand Line is, not to mention the unlikelihood/impossibility of having a constant rate for over 2 decades), Roger’s bounty should be updated in 24 years to 8.950.631,61 bellies.
The actual updated value should be much higher, since, again, 2% seems like a very low inflation rate for the Grand Line. But this just illustrate how impressive of a threat Roger was to the World Government.
