It appears so, but that 50$ doesn’t keep going. What happens, for example, when the grocery gets robbed? That 50$ becomes 0$. When money’s involved, whether it’s debit/credit or cash, there’s always a money management cost involved, and cash usually has a much higher cost than debit or credit.
But also Saramago, Gadda, García Márquez, or Victor Hugo and his 800+ words sentence. Stream of consciousness usually has long paragraphs, but it’s quite common in other genres (I feel like genres is not the right word for it. Techniques?). Popular fiction is the only one that usually avoids long sentences/paragraphs/chapters.