SortStack #1424 — 2030-05-03

By price · Order from cheapest to most expensive.

One month of Netflix's standard ad-free plan $18

Netflix began in 1998 mailing DVDs in red envelopes — it shipped its final disc in 2023 after posting over five billion of them.
The annual permit for the hot dog cart spot outside the Met museum in New York $289K

Prime NYC park vending spots are auctioned by the city — the pitch outside the Metropolitan Museum has commanded more per year than most American homes cost.
Alaska, as the United States paid Russia for it $7.2M

The 1867 nominal price worked out to about two cents per acre. Critics called it 'Seward's Folly' — then gold and oil turned it into history's great bargain.
The Louisiana Purchase, as the US paid France $15M

The 1803 nominal price bought about 2.1 million square kilometers — roughly three cents per acre — and doubled the size of the United States overnight.
Banksy's 'Love is in the Bin,' the painting that shredded itself at auction $25.4M

The hidden shredder jammed halfway, leaving the work half-intact. Three years after the stunt, the 'ruined' piece resold for roughly eighteen times its pre-shred price.
Constructing the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building $1.5B

It was renamed at the last minute for the president of Abu Dhabi, whose emirate bailed out Dubai during the 2009 debt crisis — it was to be called Burj Dubai.