THE BAHAMAS (The Borowitz Report) -- People around the world have been flabbergasted to learn that a man who created a business based on imaginary money might be a fraud.
In interviews spanning the globe, respondents expressed shock and disbelief that a firm offering customers wealth by turning their actual money into pretend money could be anything but legitimate.
TheHeaths said
01:01 PM Dec 15, 2022
I mean, who can you trust!
Mike Harding said
03:43 PM Dec 15, 2022
A bit naive I think.
If you take a handfull of Australian dollars to Peru how much do you think they would be worth in the local shops?
Paper money is only worth anything because we agree it is - tomorrow we may agree it isn't.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/world-shocked-that-man-running-business-based-on-imaginary-money-might-be-fraud
THE BAHAMAS (The Borowitz Report) -- People around the world have been flabbergasted to learn that a man who created a business based on imaginary money might be a fraud.
In interviews spanning the globe, respondents expressed shock and disbelief that a firm offering customers wealth by turning their actual money into pretend money could be anything but legitimate.
A bit naive I think.
If you take a handfull of Australian dollars to Peru how much do you think they would be worth in the local shops?
Paper money is only worth anything because we agree it is - tomorrow we may agree it isn't.
Read some history.