I took a break for a few months (or years) and so much has changed! I remember having to work so hard to get gold in towns (before zomg or aquariums) and now I just got 10k from a daily. What's with this?!
After the amount of gold in the system increased to astronomical amounts through Cash Shop gold generators (before gold came from effort instead of instant grants), the value of each piece of gold has significantly dropped. Therefore, it's not uncommon for the Daily Chance to spit out 1,000,000 at a time.
What Cash Shop items/MCs may have cost 100,000 back in the day now cost about 10,000,000,000.
You still have to work hard for things. If you go have a look at the marketplace, what was worth 100k back then would probably be worth billions now. Gaia Gold has depreciated significantly.