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So if the government passes the "Happy Happy Joy Joy
Act"
that requires tens of trillions of government
spending,
the new cash printed up is reduced in size to indicate
the
resultant inflation's effect on that bill's worth.
So for instance the normally 6.14 x 2.61 inch dollar bill
after
50%
inflation would be 3.7 x 1.3 inches.
Thus you'll be able to carry the additional cash necessary
to
buy that loaf of bread at your local Happy Happy Joy Joy
emergency food center.
And if responsible adults ever got into government office
(LOL, just kidding, this is the Halfbakery after all,
fantasy concepts are allowed) and if inflation were
reduced, the bill's size could be increased as
appropriate.
Inspired by this.
Novelty-sized_20cash
[doctorremulac3, May 23 2022]
100 Trillion Zimbabwe Dollars
https://www.banknot...n-zimbabwe-dollars/
These used to go for 20 bucks US. Either they're becoming more rare or this place overcharges. [Voice, May 23 2022, last modified May 24 2022]
Draftee president
Draftee_20President
[doctorremulac3, May 26 2022]
[link]
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We have plastic banknotes here. I wonder if you bake them in the oven do they shrink like a crisp packet does? |
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Government inflation reports with heating
instructions? I like that. |
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"This month's inflation is 14.5%, heat your currency at
250 degrees for eight and a half minutes." |
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Functionally not different from adding zeros to the bills. |
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Surely after a certain limit, adding more zeros requires the banknotes to be made larger? |
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Non-standard sizes wouldn't make them easier to carry. Surely
you'd want to scale thickness instead? |
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A less fun version would be to print the number of dollars
(/euro/ducats/etc) in existence on each bill. |
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//print the number of dollars//
So each note would be defined as a fraction of the total? I like
it. Could be "of GDP" or something else (dunno, not an
economist). The value of the total would need to be well
documented & widely distributed (if it's a frequently changing
value, at least...). |
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Hey V, your link is dead. At least when I clicked on it. |
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Looks kind of interesting too. Got another link to it? |
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Strange: the halfbakery changed the link. I tried to paste each but I ran into the 30 character limit, and I'm not going to count characters and insert spaces just to make you remove said spaces.
Copy-pasting works to visit, but it's not all that fascinating, just a place selling the notes. Currently for way more than I would pay. |
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Thank you. How? edit: lol im dum |
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I suggest public:currency |
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Another thing I've been wondering: if part of the problem instigating inflation is an excess supply of currency, does dropping, say, 40 billion into Ukraine, where it will evaporate, somehow ameliorate the problem? |
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Never ending foreign wars solve many financial
problems. Yes, some people might get hurt but
those
are mostly lowly proles anyway. The elites do quite
well however so they serve their purpose. |
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As a history nerd I suggest studying WW1, the war
where millions died because some guy
got shot in a car. (to be fair, he did have a really
nice hat) It was the birth of the modern military
industrial complex that's still with us today. Follow
the money and make your own conclusions. Kuhn,
Loeb, Bernard Baruch, J.P. Morgan, Eugene Meyer;
Paul Warburg, Max Warburg, Jacob Schiff, Louis
Brandeis, Alfred Rothschild. These are the guys we
should be building WW1 memorial statues of. |
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Put how much they made on the plaque maybe.
There's an idea, somebody should rank the biggest
wars by dollar made per life cost and rank them in
profitability. |
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if responsible adults ever got into government MFTagline |
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I don't think there are any responsible adults that would WANT
to be in government. |
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[doctorremulac3]; that's the problem. I forget where I first
saw this: "anyone capable of getting themselves voted into
government shouldn't be there".
An idea I had: find people who are:
Altruistic/"good"
Educated in something useful (medical something for a
health minister, etc)
DON'T want to be in government
Have them (for some number of "them") run the country.
Have a one-year term, then they are free & won't be called
on again. Of course, then the problem becomes "who does
the choosing?". I haven't figured that one out yet... |
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Yea, that's really something to consider, the people who
most
want to rule over others are probably the ones least suited
to
do it. |
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I suggested a draftee president at some point, let me find
it... |
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Yea, got some support. (link) Interesting concept. We draft
young
men to go die in war, draft some old guy to serve the
country
that he's done so well with for a couple of years? Seems
reasonable. |
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//find people who are [etc]// |
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There's an element of that in the British House of Lords -
albeit vitiated by cronyism, etc. |
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I think I have a piece of pocket lint...no wait, that one was a
20 dollar bill... |
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