That makes sense. Maybe a second number in brackets, or something to show how many you have vs how many you've purchased in total.
I'm mostly idling while working. :)
Fun game, I've been playing it most of the day. :)It looks like when you ascend, it does not reset the number of the things you own. So for example, it currently says I own 461 'Duck Ponds', but my autoduck income show correctly at '15'.