I think you two are comparing different numbers.

You are discussing how much money content creators get paid for impressions.

The other person is discussing how much advertisers spend to for impressions.

In the middle is Google, which has it's own costs. If you are going to pay Google to not show you ads it makes more sense to base that off of the amount of revenue it would have generated from advertisers instead of the amount of revenue it pays to content creators on your behalf.