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Re: All The Money In The World
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:58:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jon Kozan writes:
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> > But if you measure "the total money available" as the whatever represents
> > money
> > - such as your money order - then there is no limit to the money available in
> > the world. Both peices of paper such as your money order and any other object
> > (or person), or concept, can, in theory at least, be exchanged for the real
> > money, so their is no limit to "the total money available."
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> So in essence my question was phrased incorrectly--there isn't $1000
> available in Boombaville; there's $1000 in printed cash, but there's no
> limit on "actual money." Got it.
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> > Much as it is in the real world - little cash - lots of representatives of
> > cash.
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> Cool! That goes along nicely with my plan to start Xeroxing $100 bills in
> quantity. Nobody looks at serial numbers, right?
That would be unethical (which, I believe, is another thread)...
However, it is also illegal - and we could debate the reasons why our society
has chosen to make such activity illegal, or anything illegal for that matter.
Any takers?
-Jon :-) (debates within debates) (time to cross-post?)
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| (...) So in essence my question was phrased incorrectly--there isn't $1000 available in Boombaville; there's $1000 in printed cash, but there's no limit on "actual money." Got it. (...) Cool! That goes along nicely with my plan to start Xeroxing (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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