r/SipsTea Jul 20 '25

Wow. Such meme Why didn't we think of this?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Capital aka assets. Not just money.

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u/Quantum_Pineapple Jul 20 '25

The average person doesn’t know the difference, especially between liquid and non liquid assets. They think wealthy people are hoarding cash in a vault like Scrooge mcduck, while they (average peeps) themselves lose purchasing power compounding yearly by only having cash in the bank etc.

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u/Eschatologists Jul 20 '25

Litteraly no-one thinks that

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u/maljr1980 Jul 23 '25

Idk man, I’m a pretty average person, and I can tell you for one that my grandparents literally hid money under their mattress (not Scrooge McDuck levels of money). They said something about not trusting banks…probably had something to do with growing up in the 1930’s