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Similarly:

If you owe the bank $10,000, it's your problem. If you owe the bank $100m dollars, it's the bank's problem.

It's supposed to be read ironically,,,,,,, right?

And isn't that attributed to Stalin, or something.

Misattributed. It was actually Kurt Tucholsky who was himself quoting an unnamed French Diplomat.

"Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!"