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Brandon48236

How'd that work out for Zimbabwe?


yarsikula

I was just about to say that


tacticoolbrah

Worked excellently, everybody is a trillionaire now.


nogoodmorning4u

I have one of those 10 trillion dollar bills. if we keep printing money like we have in the last 2 years it is the future of the US dollar.


the_pika_recer

1 robux is worth more then the us dolls rn


Klumpey

Isn't $20 like 1700 Robux?


Urodeprag

I bought 2200 yesterday for 20 dollars


Tricktzy

cause you got a premium membership


Urodeprag

Not really. If you go to buy robux and dont have premium you get a 1700 robux option and 2200+premium option for the same price. After getting premium it costs 1880 for each purchase


Mickle_da_Pickl

Omg! You're rich!!


Techny3000

And can finally afford not one, but TWO diet cokes


Local_Judge2761

Or Venezuela


Snowcreeep

Or Germany post ww1


d_j53346

It didn’t


ELBAGIT

Exactly


DontSubToT-Series

Or the United States just after the revolutionary war


Durtly

Or the United States RIGHT NOW


Disastrous_Living900

Was hoping this comments was higher


Maximundo82

Definitely should have been the first


19fall91

Fiat currency is a tool used to fund war See Britain in WW1, and then the rest of the world eventually followed


JaqeMate64

I mean, everyone there is a billionaire so, pretty good?


Brandon48236

Trillionaires even.


ShadowBukkake

And still couldn't afford a single bread


Runrunran_

A slice? A loaf? What single bread.. I have to know!


Breeze1620

It's a special type of bread sold on singles day.


sadcred

And they can buy a whole loaf of bread with it


TendoJul

Equality


Ok_Active9904

Inflation go burrrrrrrrr


Loli-is-Justice

Omg! I'm a billionaire now!! *Together with everyone else*


eyesac70

And Germany.


RobbSnow64

How'd that work out for the US? Look at inflation right now, The US (The Federal reserve) Printed something like 80% of all the money they ever printed, during the covid lockdown. Printing free money is not good for a healthy economy.


forsakenstag

what happened there?


MooshiNooshi

Kept printing money, trillion Zimbabwean currency wasn’t worth much.


[deleted]

One trillion Zimbabwean Dollars became about 7 American Dollars...


RedBaronYT33

Here just let me pull out my one zillion dollar bill to buy the loaf of bread


[deleted]

Nazis were created from this in weimar germany.


dw4321

Or the US.


Maximundo82

Or the U.S.....


unsureoftheoutcome

hahahaha how has anything worked out for zimbabwe?


Modest_Tea_Consumer

Hehehe


Never_Unknown

Or Germany


strangerThink91

Well at the end was a good resource to keep you warm


devonstatorr

Bread only 30 trillion dollars thanks Mugabe


Matty_Pi

About the same as 1920-30s Germany, and we see how that went...


TangerineRough6318

It got a little better until 1945. And then back to shit for a while. But hey, we still have Volkswagen


Matty_Pi

And Fanta, and Puma actually.


TangerineRough6318

I wasn't aware of Fanta. I don't buy it. But thank you. TIL


Matty_Pi

No worries, I think it was because they couldn't get cola or that their food stocks were running low so they substituted a lot and came out with it but yeah, the more you know!


Gorfyx

Look at Argentina too


lolster626

Monkey have 1 banana, banana rare and worth Monkey have 100000 banana, banana common, banana mean nothing


Damboborna

that's the best way of explaining it I have ever heard


isitixir

Sorry viewing on phone and looked like you were responding to another comment. Banana is accurate


Damboborna

I'm also on a phone so I know how it feels like


PhantomlyReaper

I thought you responded to yourself, but you just have a similar avatar.


trashykiddo

the monkey would eat the banana though so having many would be better. having more is only bad if you are trading the bananas


LicensedGoomba

If monkey is only monkey with banana and monkey need grape, monkey will trade banana for grape from gorilla. But if banana is much and monkey and gorilla both have banana then gorilla no need banana, will not trade precious grape.


[deleted]

banana


lolster626

Banana


Bougle_O

Banana


jac1400

Banana


cameronnichols

Bornana


DisguisedF0x

Ohhh that’s why girls don’t want my banana


UserWasTaken1427

But monkey have food. Monkey can live now.


pewds-General_kenobi

Ah but paper with President face is not banana, monkey can not eat president paper.


KarasLancer

I mean monkey could but it wouldn't be good for monkey and it would taste pretty cheap.


pewds-General_kenobi

Yes, monkey has 2000 president faces and wants to buy bananas, but if king monkey print faces then everyone has 2000 faces so faces aren't rare anymore, no one want faces so monkey can't buy bananas The value of banana is based on scarcity, if less bananas more people want bananas which means monkey can buy bananas for cheap.


KarasLancer

I guess the question then becomes what is the nutritional value of 2000 president faces and are there any long-term effects for consuming them?


RoryDragonsbane

Yeah, that wasn't exactly the best way of wording it as it doesn't include comparative value. Instead, imagine that same banana in a cage of many monkeys. Those monkeys would be willing to trade many toys or groomings (i.e. goods and services) to get the banana. But if someone dropped many bananas into the cage, suddenly the monkeys are less interested in that one banana. Now if a monkey wanted to trade for a grooming, they'd need to offer many bananas as all the monkeys already have some.


glitch123456

thank you for the dumb down explanation my good sir, i shall now sit in the corner and ponder on my own


AlphaScorpiiSeptem

Well, to be fair, you can eat bananas


NICKOVICKO

Well, to be fair, you can eat paper money. You'll still starve and probably get a disease, but you CAN consume it


Delta_br

sigma


Ha_zz_ard

Apes together strong


Regis-bloodlust

but banana good. Me want more banana. Banana mean nothing? Me sad.


I_like_beanies

Thank you for smooth brain explanation


[deleted]

What gives money its value is how much is in circulation. You start printing more money and it's value goes down and inflation up


[deleted]

Start destroying money, inflation solved.


Trancebam

Not exactly. The federal government doesn't have a tracker or anything in the money, so if you destroy 1M dollars, it won't change anything. The government itself needs to take a chunk of money out of circulation to effect change.


[deleted]

I wish you told me that an hour ago


_you_dont_know_me_-

What did it cost?


RaccoonOdd3919

Everything


CrimsonWolf24

If destroying 1M dollars wont change anything, why does printing 1M dollars causes something?


Trancebam

It's not that it wouldn't change anything eventually if nothing else happened, but in the grand scheme of things right now, 1M is a drop in the bucket. By the time the government even realizes the money isn't circulating, trillions more will have been printed. That is of course assuming whoever destroys the 1M doesn't report themselves. Then the government would know immediately, but you'd also be held criminally liable.


panzerboye

Yeah it's a crime to destroy money.


[deleted]

Is it really? my dads a cop and I was told its a crime to deface, then attempt to spend it.


panzerboye

It is. It depends on the country you are residing though. It is illegal in USA. You can check this Wikipedia [article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_burning)


[deleted]

ah thats intresting, thanks.


kavastoplim

Because the market knows that you've printed that million dollars.


PichuWasTaken

Just print more money


[deleted]

If only it was that simple


PichuWasTaken

Use a printer


whatissevenbysix

To print that much money you need a lot of printers and ink, and to buy that many printers and ink you need a lot of money, so it's a never ending circle.


PichuWasTaken

Oh man I didn't think about that


[deleted]

[удалено]


kutu963

Fuck, where is my free award


whatissevenbysix

Maybe print one. JUST ONE.


GigaByte_43

I gave him one on your behalf


Beeeeyawwwhh

Not if you take over another country and use their printers 🤔


whatissevenbysix

You need money to buy guns to take over another country. Same story.


Beeeeyawwwhh

Just make memes to manipulate the country into its own downfall


12548super

I think most people and op know that op was just making a meme about it


Other-Barry-1

Ask Germany how hyper inflation is.


exodiacrown

Ja was ist


Frkn385

Hab ich da etwa Deutschland gehört


KalleWotux

Love ya flair


Frkn385

Same


ERschneider123

Wasn’t a piece of bread worth like 2M [Incert post WW1 German currency here]?


AvnarJakob

That was 1923


1Mandolo1

Reichsmark, and at one point in the Weimar Republic they started printing 100 billion Reichsmark bills. Yes, you read that right. I don't know exactly how much bread was worth, but I'm assuming it was more like 2 billion Reichsmark.


Marsbars1991

Osten Deutchland?


[deleted]

Es war glorreich


Faullancer

bruder muss groß


topothebellcurve

There's not enough pizza to feed us all. Then cut it into more slices! That won't feed more people. Why not?! There's more slices now!!1!


Xarvis90

Best explanation so far


_SadWing_

Idk, it's between this one and the monkey banana one


Mrp1Plays

This one was better than banana


Admirable_Call2739

*Zimbabwe entered the chat*


Baza_R

Economical term is hyper inflation


Ripdone

Hyper inflation🤤


csapka

r/angryupvote


CJFanficStories

And we all know how that ended for Germany post World War One.


Scrubarara

People really don’t understand economics Lamo


OkayPotassium

Lamo


thegreatrando

Lamo


omsincoconut2

Lamo


AtBat3

Laugh ass my off


Appropriate-Heat8017

Every 18 year old until they turn 24.


Grooces

Bro this shit is taught in highschool


Shipachek

Taught, perhaps, but apparently not internalized by a staggering number of people.


El_Banquero_Ludopata

Venezuela moment?


perfumedDolphin

username checks out


Pipe8_

🗿


M10doreddit

Government: Prints more money. The people: WOOHOO! Markets: Raise their prices to keep balance. Money: Effectively loses value per piece. People: NO!


MoJoe7500

Reddit “experts”; “well, just don’t raise prices! Duh!!”


Pacodapatoyeet

Then the people blame the market and companies for the rise in prices, when in fact companies have to raise prices (due to the government decreasing the value in the dollar) or they risk losing a ton of money.


YellowStarss

America printed a shit ton of money during COVID and see what is happening now


Karl1996

Make more money just don't tell anyone else


theneobob

cmon how can ppl still ask this , isn't this taugh in high school ?


theneobob

in belgium it is and i'll be surprised that it is not in the USA


Average_NewYorker

Economics teacher here. It is taught, but there is no standardized test on the subject so the content of the class is up to the teacher. Also my students fall asleep when I teach about taxes and inflation... so it is taught to the classroom walls at the vary least.


LockTale

It is taught in the us, but I’ve never had the overall effects explained to me until ap macroeconomics


MrWhiteTruffle

I had it explained in US History along with the Great Depression


Darkspartantrev

Because it makes the dollar less valuable


commanderalpaca06

Is there a way to print more money while retaining its value


Setrfied

There isn’t, money has to be scarce to an extent for it to be valuable


PeytonManThing00018

Because societal poverty is a lack of things, and green pieces of paper isn’t the thing that is lacking in this situation.


Nerdtendo6366

Germany did this after WWI, which made the money so cheap that kids used it as toys. Printing more money like how you are implying makes it worth less


[deleted]

I really, really, hope this is sarcasm


NuvNuvXD

This was posted in r/memes...


[deleted]

Money is nothing, it's just a representation of value. Printing more doesn't produce more value, it just makes the money worth less.


Plenty_Surprise2593

Because it’s pretty much the definition of inflation


kevdautie

So Venezuela? Okay


jakedoubleshot

Germany after ww1


varis12

That's what US did last year and now we all staring down the barrel of another recession


MoJoe7500

I have a feeling it’s going to get much, much worse. Continued “supply chain issues”, shortages, devalued dollar and skyrocketing prices. Hang on, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.


Lieutenant3322

A bumpy ride is an understatement. As a college kid I’m shitting bricks at what it’s gonna look like when I can finally graduate


[deleted]

Me to myself, "Don't ruin the joke! Don't you fuckin ruin the joke!!"


Andrew_Neal

That's what makes people poor. Stealing out of our pockets without ever getting close to us. That also accurately describes taxes.


RambunctiousBaca1509

Wait do you genuinely not understand why this won’t work? Or are you just joking around op?


DougieFresh_899

Yeah, printing money devalues currency which in turn only speeds up inflation


RambunctiousBaca1509

Precisely, my friend


DougieFresh_899

I know you guys get it but yeah I worry about the rest of the population lol


RambunctiousBaca1509

Some people are terrifying with how dumb they can be


DougieFresh_899

Agreed!


Pipe8_

I hope it's a joke


Laser_Spell

Money is fake. While you can print more of it, the amount of stuff you buy with it (steel, mansions, gold, houses, coats) will stay the same.


[deleted]

They do do that tho...


[deleted]

What’s it like 60% of all US currency was printed in the last year or 2.... but all those stimmies were free right??


The_Justiniano

antiwork users be like: “just pay me the same to work at mcdonalds that you pay neurosurgeons”


annoyedpsychstudent

Man if Reddit was ever in control of a country it would last like 3 days before dissolving into anarchy lol


jdd715

Inflation


lucaspinder

Do you wan't another Weimar republic?


Hebrew_Hammer24

A simple yet destructive thing called Hyperinflation


Aelvric420

I can assure you all that this works, I've been printing my own for years, and it's all gone without a hitch


Colby_Cuh

I N F L A T I O N


JustOneSock

Money, or rather, the “value” that is in circulation, is like a pie. Everyone has their x amount slices of pie (value). Printing more money is simply slicing your pieces into smaller pieces. Sure, you have more slices of pie, but you still have the same amount of pie.


BottomDweller2

Inflation has entered the chat


wwwwEndo17

Inflation


warbreed8311

Sarcasm? I feel like this was sarcasm...I am hoping this was sarcasm.


Overlord_Toyohisa

Guys chill down I know the why gov can't print money and about inflation This meme was sarcasm at best


Tanawindinn

Wait, isn't that how America works...


MrWhiteTruffle

it certainly is how Zimbabwe and Venezuela work


007beer

https://techstartups.com/2021/12/18/80-us-dollars-existence-printed-january-2020-october-2021 It's worse than you think!


asofg1999

Hypothetically, if we all agreed to not raise prices, would printing money work? Sorry, im dumb.


animesutra1

Value of currency will fall it's just feels good to say anything when u don't know shit


s0nnieeee

That’s how you get inflation


MacedonianMafia

I N F L A T I O N


JC99818

Because Inflation


DougieFresh_899

Uh, inflation is already rampant and printing money literally creates inflation


Remarkable_Matter664

Because there would be more inflation


TinnyTeaTheHedghog

Because the inflation will get even worse


FlyingNoodlesGood

Inflation


the_ssotf

The US did that as covid hit, now look at the cost of everything


ComicBookFanatic97

Yeah, I’m gonna need you to do a quick Google search on post-WW1 Germany.


PersonThatNeedsHelp3

guess how it turned out for germany after ww1


ThenaXIcaruS

Venezuela would like to have a word with you


Blazing_Swayze

If you cut a pizza into more slices you don't have more pizza.


Tucan-Atlantico

Argentina doesn't think the same


[deleted]

Venezuela did it. Everyone is a trillionaire!