Monochrom: Dollar devaluation for dummies (video)
"To rectify the oversupply of American Dollars, Florian removed one from circulation -- by eating it. The harsh realities of currency valuation can be hard to swallow." Video Link. (thanks, Susannah Breslin!)
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now I wonder how many infectious diseases he's now contracted by eating a bill.
let's do some math:
According to the Danger Room in Wired, the USA spends (i.e. fabricates) 12 billion Federal Reserve Notes per month, or approximately 400 million per day, for Iraq War 2. Approximately 300 million people live within the borders of the USA today.
In order to counter-act the inflation due to this expansion of currency supply (which transfers wealth to the military-industrial corporatists from a stealth tax on your savings and income), everyone in the USA would have to eat one dollar per day every day. (Nevermind that it's your dollar and the damage is already done.)
Time to conduct trade in Krugerrands; dumping of Federal Reserve Notes for which will merely expedite the hyperinflation.
This reminds me of the slow destruction of dollars in the Illuminatus! Trilogy with the intention of destabilizing US currency.
Zuzu, we could burn it instead of eating it. Less bacteria. Better smell.
On X-Day (Its a Subgenius Holiday, for the pinks) we smoke our dollars, as "Bob" would want us to do.
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