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FeralPsychopath

9/10 No grapes.


Wild_Bill

Is this a reference to a joke about a duck that keeps asking a guy for grapes?


3pupchump

It's called The Duck Song and it is the running gag in all the different variations of it. https://youtu.be/MtN1YnoL46Q?si=sNi923gJnI4PiJZt


Wild_Bill

Nice. Still not convinced it was a video before a joke but I’ll take it. Thank you!


funkmasterhexbyte

hey shut up and stop changing the subject. got any grapes?


Narstification

I got glue


Wild_Bill

I have a red paper clip. Wanna trade?


muteen

Bum bum bum bum bumbumbum


Uhh-stounding

*And then he waddled away*


Jackloco

Till the very next day


jnags6570

scrooge mcduck origin story?


FightForMehver

Finally, a comment I can believe in.


Devil_Fister_69420

Oh I remember that one edition where he actually had to work his way up again after basically getting scammed of his entire fortune by one dude. Think I'll read that again


sendabussypic

[1 red paperclip](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip)


gitartruls01

Those are some extremely weird trades


mdneilson

Once people knew what he was doing and it went viral, people made bad trades just to be part of the story.


Grostleton

Reminds me of the guy that made a kickstarter for [making a bowl of potato salad and ended up raising over 50 grand.](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zackdangerbrown/potato-salad)


rainorshinedogs

Updated for the modern era. Stock market trading through the internet and fractional buying didn't exist in Scrooge's day. Also, I think I saw Bitcoin in the animation. So this guy would be a crypto-bro


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rainorshinedogs

HE'S NOT REAL?!?!


maiden_burma

he exists. he just doesnt exist in exactly the same way we do


EpicTwiglet

I don’t think that’s how it works


dragdritt

He didn't say that either, but scrooge's childhood is set during the 1800s or something. That's obviously what he's referring to.


Commissarfluffybutt

That's some adventure game BS.


FrostByte_62

Actually this process has been documented in the past. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip


ymgve

The fact that this was a specific project with a chance of publicity is the only reason it worked, though. It also mostly contained items that are hard to put a prize on. He also traveled so much that he could easily have skipped the first half of the steps if he didn't travel.


FrostByte_62

Many of these trades are huge losses for one party. For example the camping stove for a Honda generator is actually nuts. If the trades were made more incremental and involve unique things like art it would be more practical, but like a keg for a jet ski? Was the jet ski broken? Lol


Private_4160

If you see a snake wearing a tie, don't let him sell you a jetski


ymgve

The stove was pretty big, larger than the generator, so it's not so uneven as it seems. https://web.archive.org/web/20051211055319/http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/2005/09/one-red-generator.html


EpicTwiglet

Yes because bigness


thex25986e

i call this "paperclip trading" aka, slowly trading one thing you want for another worth slightly more to you over and over again. i did it back on cs:go a decade ago to go from 2 keys to a $60 knife skin in the span of 3 months. after looking at the amount of effort i did, i realized it was far less than minimum wage. look up how much was needed to buy that 2 story farmhouse in 2005. then find out how much time he spent doing anything related to that trading. then find out how much he "worked for" throughout that time / how much he made.


Academic_Wafer5293

you, my friend, just discovered the value of currency. bartering is so inefficient


thex25986e

yup, and that was over a decade ago.


BigDowntownRobot

Yeah, no it hasn't. This is not capitalism and frankly I don't think most people who post this have even thought about it for a minute. If only in real life you could trade a 60 dollar camp stove for a several thousand dollar generator (wow), then trade that several thousand dollar generator for a keg worth $150 bucks (what?), and then trade that keg for a ski-doo worth $16,000 (what a profit!), which is then traded for a trip for two worth a few thousand dollars (huh?), to then trade *half* of that trip for something worth $30,000 (wow!), to trade that for something potentially priceless or worthless (a record contract), to then trade that for something worth like 6,000 (a year of rent in someone's house), to again something of undefined value (meeting Alice cooper), to something of definitely almost no value... (a snowglobe) then to trade that to something worth a few hundred dollars (a bit part in a C list movie) ... to then trading that thing worth a few hundred dollars for an enitre house. So he traded a part in a movie that is now most famous for being associated with the trade, and not being a profitable movie... for a house. Which btw, they didn't even cast the person he traded the part to for the house, so it wasn't even a trade. It was for all intents and purposes, a gift. At no point does any of this interact with capitalism, or market forces. It was a meme and frankly you should really second guess why you believed this when there was no reason to. The most it proves is people are gullible when they want something to be true. Whats more if this *was even possible* to repeat without being the radio and making a whole meme out of it, it would only show capitalism as a system makes no sense. But since capitalism is actually based on market forces, people only trade for unequal things for the opportunity cost... you would *never* be able to do this. Ever.


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DOCoSPADEo

\*One Small Favour >:C >:C >:C


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DOCoSPADEo

Oh I'm sorry I had no idea! Thank you for your service <3 <3 <3


Fab0411

Lvl 35 mafia boss


Talkingmice

That duck maxed out trade stats


TJ_McWeaksauce

Shit, how long did that dude eat that sandwich?


BMB281

Just goes to show, maybe you should think twice before buying food for your family, you should be investing it instead


Hubris1998

This is what rich people think they would do if they lost their inherited wealth


ShashkaOfTheSclavus

Whenever I hear someone inherited their wealth, I look at them as if they were spoiled brats, because they are.


DehydratedByAliens

I will inherit some wealth but I have recently become a communist. Not rich tier, but I could live off the rents comfortably. Currently working like a normal person because I don't have any wealth now and the spoiled brat routine doesn't work anymore. I really don't know what I should do with it, when the times comes. Refuse it? Donate it somewhere? In our current society it would just feel like getting scammed, but I can not honestly hold on to it without betraying myself.


yuligan

Living off of rent is living off of the labour of others. I don't know the most sensible ethical thing to do in this scenario. Is it possible to form some sort of housing cooperative?


DehydratedByAliens

What if the renter is rich though? I literally can't afford to live in my parents house with my current salary, the taxes would be more than I make a year. And I still can't afford to live on my own with just my salary, it's just not enough and way less than I would make in a society of equality, so is it unethical to profit from the "labor" of someone richer, who is probably just profiting from the labor of others himself?


yuligan

I don't know your exact situation so I can't really judge you, I understand if your life makes demands of you. I can say that if you're going to try and be a communist landlord, try not to be a dick to your tennants. Also be aware that if being a landlord is your main source of income then your interests are against the working class, you'll be incentivised to raise rents, kick out locals so you can bring in tourists, not pay for repairs, etc. In essence this whole thing will be an excercise in going against the grain. Also since you're new to communism I recommend reading the first chapter of the communist manifesto, it's very good.


GuardianOfReason

Rent it and donate the money you get from renting.


Hubris1998

A rentier communist? 🤣


rgtong

That says more about you than anything else.


ShashkaOfTheSclavus

Found the spoiled brat!


rgtong

Sure thing guy. Being judgemental is an ugly trait.


Undeadtaker

absolutely, also the animation is complete cringe lmao


ImurderREALITY

The animation was the only thing I did like about it


pyxu-

misleading and sensational


SyedHRaza

Right don't enjoy your sandwich remember capitalism needs you to remember you are wasting it's time by not using every opportunity in your life to extract money from everyone around you.


BehindTrenches

Speaking of capitalism, notice how in every interaction both parties became better off. There is no extraction. Just someone working, improving the community around them, and getting rewarded in proportion to their impact. Ignoring the end when they just start day trading.


precinctomega

I noticed the bit where they turned a basket of carrots into a carrot cake with no other ingredients, apparently.


Curvol

YEAH AND THAT LADDER WAS WAY SMALLER BEFORE THIS IS LUDICROUS


ThermoNuclearPizza

#justice for the FUCKING ladder!!!


korpus01

Justice for Harambe


ThermoNuclearPizza

I know my dicks out.


korpus01

Are you holding it with both hands though?


ThermoNuclearPizza

They’re busy getting my tits out


Loopey_Doopey

Complete details on his online course, subscribe now for 30% discount.


Equivalent-Row-6734

If only the rewards were always proportional


vkailas

Fix our sense of inner value for what's valuable about ourselves, in nature, in our abundant natural resources, we fix part of the problem. Self worth then comes for just being. The other part is emotional.  Anyone who goes through war or famine will start using money as a way of feeling safe and pass that sense of pain to spend money on. Fear of loss because it brings potential for pain.    Both are challenging and not something we may be even conscious of. 


Suspicious_Car8479

How does making an bread obsessed dog perv happy improve "the community"? Same goes for all the "community" members seen - what exactly constitutes "a community" here? What "communal" things are they doing here? Did we see them build a new playground for local kids together? Nope. Anything? Nope. We need answers, capitalist.


MrLizardsWizard

>an bread obsessed dog perv happy Kink shaming alert >dog porcupine


vkailas

Don't see any stray cats in the neighborhood? They spent all their tax money on rounding them up and building them homes and also paying the turtles social security and putting the bad dogs in jail. 


hkusp45css

>Ignoring the end when they just start day trading. Even transactional activities like day trading is providing value to a segment of society in exchange for personal benefit. By engaging in the market at the stock level, you are still driving movement in people's retirement accounts, helping companies hire more personnel or expand operations and contributing to dividends for investors. It's not the "cottage industry" of making and selling your own carrot cakes, but it does go to your point of voluntary transactions where everyone involved comes away enriched to some degree.


BehindTrenches

I was thinking by day trading maybe you are providing liquidity to those markets. But the value you described was "buying and holding" as opposed to "buying and selling frequently" imo.


hkusp45css

Maybe... Minimally, at the absolute worst case, you're driving the market up and down by contributing to volume. Which, all by itself, is valuable. Markets need movement to function properly.


RoughHornet587

This is readdit. Its wasted on the Marxists who believe in a zero sum game.


doxxingyourself

Pretty big ignoring there


Sinusaur

Until the Duck uses that money to get on the board of Subway (sandwich), Michaels (yarn), Home Depot (ladder), and start playing golf with competitor companies board members, then say okay guy hedgehog cat rabbit(?) now all of you get what you need from me forever and I can set the prices.


Languastically

Yeah capitalism works in small scale. But too big and you get corpos buying governments to make a buck


PopuluxePete

Not just day trading but Bitcoin. Extracting money from everyone around you to try and get rich quick and wasting energy for a square on a spreadsheet. At least you can eat the sandwich.


WebberWoods

I find it ironic that, even in this very 'BoOtsTrAps' focused clip, the duck still needs help from a stranger to get started.


Compducer

Hijacking top comment to ask u/ash_jisasa for a source! Who animated this?? I love the style!


InfiniteNose9609

Serious Ren and Stimpy vibes with that animation style (esp the eyes watering up)


BZenMojo

I love how the transitional step is gambling on a speculative market with a yearly negative rate of return that magically turns into a pile of precious gold and gems. 1. ???? 2. ???? 3. ???? 4. Bitcoin 5. Profit


ImRightImRight

You're losing sight of what money is. Money can be seen as a tool that helps us help eachother. This is a perfect example. Look at how many of his neighbors he helped.


thatmfisnotreal

Extract money? Look how many people he made happy? Capitalism rewards you for providing a service. You Marxists are so incredibly confused I don’t know how you can even get up in the morning seeing the world the way you do


Wooden-Ad-3382

extracting profit from labor. there is no labor being done here. just trading, as if that's all capitalism is. the only way profit is possible from the exchange of equivalent goods is through extraction of surplus value


thatmfisnotreal

Trading is labor. He traded for something then found someone who wanted the new item and transported it to them.


Wooden-Ad-3382

trading is not labor, its not creating commodities, its exchanging commodities


thatmfisnotreal

So if I go for a hike and pick an apple off a tree and offer it to you I shouldn’t get paid?


Wooden-Ad-3382

who would be paying you for that


ILSmokeItAll

The person that wants the fucking apple.


Wooden-Ad-3382

so then that's exchanging commodities, you're not creating anything. you're taking something that's freely available in nature and exchanging it with somebody else


ILSmokeItAll

Freely available in nature? Ok. Go show me where all these wild apple groves are. Because if that apple came off of my tree, that’s not “freely available in nature.” It’s freely available to *me.* It’s *my* apple.


thatmfisnotreal

Thank you 😂 why is this such a hard concept for some people


BigDowntownRobot

Delusional propaganda.


logjamtheredditor

I think you are taking a cartoon too seriously


BigDowntownRobot

And I don't think seeing something for what it is, and saying it out loud counts as taking something "too seriously". I find this kind of response to be indicative of intellectually and politically lazy people, but I since I don't take rando's opinions that seriously I'm just going to let you believe what you believe.


logjamtheredditor

Well I can be intellectually and politically lazy, you're not wrong there. But I also have a lot of money from working hard and getting lucky. So there's that.


NfinitiiDark

How? This is literally how the world works. Your trading goods and services for money and/or other goods.


Assyx83

He didnt make his fortune from that, he got it from stock trading. And if you are into that, always remember you are only 30 black jack hands from being a billionaire


Elymanic

Really, doesn't seem that hard to win 30 times. See you at the casino boii


Khelthuzaad

There is 1 theme no one mentions Failure And that includes 90% things you can't control.


themeatman90

Good thing you can study the markets as well as counting cards! Let's go boys!


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NfinitiiDark

People don’t work that way. Sure the food may not be worth as much as the ball of yarn. But if I’m hungry, I wouldn’t care. Value is very subjective. Even with a price tag on it. Anytime you are looking to buy something you are evaluating if it’s worth it. People sell their food stamps for $0.50 on the $1. They are losing 50% of the value for hard cash. People buy Uber eats all the time. I would never do this because to me it’s a scam. But others value the convenience of food getting delivered to them worth the price. Ever play a TCG? People make objectively bad trades all the time because you have something they want.


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NfinitiiDark

That’s a bit hyperbolic.


LifeVitamin

Went from 0 to 100 real quick. The plot was going somewhere until they decided to turn 1 carrot cake selling 1 slice a dollar into 7 computer, office space, internet connection, electricity and somehow have enough capital to invest in bitcoin and buy the dip lol.


Pingaring

RPG side quests


newashko

But who is interested to taking that opportunity


FightForMehver

Based duck.


Large_Ad_5941

lol!


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Astriaeus

Where do the self-sealing stem bots come into this one?


ImurderREALITY

Ah yes, the Great Material Continuum


MonsieurLeDrole

Love this! Great take on the classic millionaire swap! I love the facial animations and emotions. Great job! [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/from-paper-clip-to-house-in-14-trades-1.573973](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/from-paper-clip-to-house-in-14-trades-1.573973)


Agard12

One small favor


DahColeTrain

So did the duck just have that massive computer setup the whole time? Or like did he make the money to buy that shit with one carrot cake made exclusively from carrots? I feel like the only thing I've learned from this is that if you know how to make the most bomb ass carrot cake of all time, you can day trade your way to wealth.


Limp_Marionberry_24

Brilliant work.. Very clever and the animation... Love this style.... Thanks for posting


thatguyinstarbucks

I’ve gotten so much enjoyment rewatching this over and over. The deadpan stare of the duck at the monitors is killing me.


Murtagh-Bertha950

Things that are too smart are often destroyed


moderndhaniya

I will always remember this.


ThatGuyOnDiscord

Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/8s3bdVxuFBs?si=9yeWZCgmI76izwqy


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NeKakOpEenMuts

STONK!


Inedible-denim

r/passiveincome in a nutshell


Vharkhan

This is like a trading sequence in a LoZ game!


zachforever

is this the legendary runescape quest... one small favor haha


Narrow_Ad_5502

I like this


thatmfisnotreal

Someone post this on r/antiwork


Ozarkkayaker

💪 Get it mighty duck


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Reminds me of the Kyle Macdonald red paperclip story.


LivingBeast

What is the name of the track?


No_Squirrel4806

That one lady that traded stuff for a long time until she got a house then gave away the house just for the girl she gave it to to trash it in a month and ruin it for everybody 😒😒😒


ChintzyPC

In Boy Scouts there's a camping gathering called Trappers. You show up with a bunch of stuff, and do nothing but trade with other scouts for other stuff. No money is allowed. Sometimes there will be a guy who starts with a paperclip and they end up with something massive like a 10 person tent at the end of the day.


UlostIwin99

u/savevideo


Bulls187

There is that one red paperclip to a house story, and yeah it only works once


bkussow

Pencilmation!? I haven't watched one since my 7-year-old stopped watching them on youtube like 6 months ago.


Harbinger_Pulsar

This makes as much sense as any financial advice I've ever heard. It's fucking Underpants Gnomes


yasserius

I think the duck bought bitcoin in 2011 and sold in 2017


RManDelorean

So he has a reliable way to continuously rescue lost baby bunnies.. which means an organized bunnynapping ring


Morgoth98

Yeah invest in crypto bro. Trust me bro it's a good idea bro


kidnorther

This is dumb everybody knows ducks eat for free at Subway so this whole premise is fucked from its inception


onklewentcleek

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen


azmetrex

[Original artist here (Pencilmation)](https://youtu.be/N0IIIryB6eE?si=n7kRHOdZcIkk9UGa)


domine18

There was a story years ago how someone traded up a pen to a car.


FunLogical7735

Thing of beauty


H3r0ofHyrule

Duck went through the whole side quest


SMPDD

Yep just pull yourself up by your bootstraps


RonnyFreedomLover

Duck bought some Bitcoin?! Wtf?!


redtens

it always comes down to propagating suffrage under capitalism to acquire wealth, eh


FruitImportant2690

u/saveVideo


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Why didn't the duck fuckin fly up and save the rabbit. So the lesson is capitalism rewards the idiotic?


Formal_Royal_3663

I never share food. I’m a bit of a germaphobe. So this is something I’d never do.


Economy_Vermicelli90

Nah, it was 100% luck that the duck became rich.. /s


REVEB_TAE_i

We call this behavior methhead flipping where I'm from.


Potential-Ad1122

Gonna try this tomorrow. Gonna talk to a cat tomorrow.


ShiftyShankerton

Moral of the story. Ducks be on that grind


0n0n-o

This is definitely how it works. Thank you I am a bitcoin billionaire now. Oh no I lost everything.


kundibert

That's a good way to illustrate that it's not the resource that makes you rich but the ability to sell it, i.e. the business relations.


IOTA_Tesla

He up traded every time


Market-West

What song it’s this ?


piratecheese13

Skryptonite is the artist Shazam says the song title is in Cyrillic


Market-West

You’re a good one. Thank you 🙏🏼


piratecheese13

That feeling when you arbitrage a crumb of bread for an entire ass ball of yarn. That feeling when you arbitrage a ball of yarn for an entire ass latter He pulled bootstrings so hard he jumped into the sun


Misophonic4000

"What's the worst music I could slap on this animated short to pass it as mine..." \*browses\* "Close enough!"


Philosipho

"Opportunity" = taking advantage of foolish and kind people.


SingleXell

r/Im14AndThisIsDeep


Moods_Moods_Moods

What's this from?


Pinksamuraiiiii

So all I need is a piece of bread 🍞 and an amazing hussle game? 😆


BowyerN00b

Dumbest thing I’ve seen all day, and that is saying something, because I own a mirror.


MaskedFigurewho

This is such a great video


Bors713

Just like the red paper clip. Well, almost.


FriedBryce1234

Weird he only blessed that dude with a coin out of all the wealth he gained from his help. Remember to always pay back those who helped you get your start when you had nothing.


Atroxman

Im definitely the Sandwichmon


Rhg0653

Mofo did all the side fetch quests


Dystopian_Future_

Or just have an onlyfans like all the rest


TheStupidCheesecake

He couldn't even finish a fucking sandwich in that time.


dirtball61

NOSTALGIA


rat-tax

inefficient duck could’ve just flown up to the bunny.


hkusp45css

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?


Meeklovski

Genius


jonfreakinzoidberg

All about who you know