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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 163 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This perfectly encapsulates how anti vaxxers and others think. "Ive thought it through and it cantnbebright". Its incredible how we can have access to vast amounts of information and yet live in an age of gleeful ignorance.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 week ago (3 children)

>Town of 100 people
>Everyone has $50
>Everyone stores Money In Town Bank
>Total bank balance of everyone: $5000
>Bank lends $1000 to a farmer to buy new equipment
>Merchant who sold the equipment deposits $1000 into bank.
>There is now $6000 total deposited in the bank
>1000 just came out of thin air
Money is fake and gay

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember this classic philosophical quandary of our time, but in a different form.

Classic.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 14 points 1 week ago
  1. A and B add 20 to Box. Both have -20 balance.
  2. A sells Box to B for 30. A has 10 balance and B has -50.
  3. A walks away with 10 Profit
  4. B takes cash out of box (40). Made 10 Loss.
[–] pm_me_your_thoughts@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rich people never pay off debt.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

They let the poor pay it off for them

Balance:

Each of 98 Townspeople: $50

The Merchant: $1050

The Farmer: -$950

So, the 98 towns people and the merchant all wants to withdraw.

???

Now you have a riot outside of a bank.

Congrats, you destroyed a Town with #Banking 🫠

Or alternatively.

The Banker just gaslight the town to mob-lynch the Farmer the good ol' capitalism way.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

Future economists are going to make so much fun of us for thinking $1000 was created here.