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What if you literally had all the money in the world? (www.youtube.com)
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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I get why he considered the physical issues of having physical cash, but I really wanted to hear about what parts of society would collapse first, how long it would take for people to trade in ad hoc currencies, and would the world come up with new currencies and disseminate them, and how long that would take.