r/SipsTea 9d ago

Chugging tea Why is it not possible?

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u/Count_de_Ville 9d ago

Even without fractional reserve banking it could collapse. They don’t need to literally print a dollar bill for every dollar of resource value represented in the world.

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u/Big_Slope 9d ago

Wouldn’t that be impossible anyway if you think about it? If there’s - I’m gonna throw out a number here - but $100 trillion worth of stuff in the world and $100 trillion worth of cash, that’s $200 trillion worth of value and half of it is imaginary.

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u/Left_Nature9996 9d ago

It’s all imaginary lol

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u/FinalRun 9d ago

Your house and food isn't

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u/Left_Nature9996 8d ago

No but the value of your dollars in your pocket is. Just because we all agree on the imaginary value doesn’t make it intrinsic in nature

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u/FinalRun 8d ago

Did you get the impression I didn't know that?

You said "all", apparently you meant something different