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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] uebquauntbez 7 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

So if I own a single dollar and tell everyone it's a trillion worth ... does that make me rich or am I a fool?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

a fool, until someone believes you.

[–] SkunkWorkz 11 points 22 hours ago

A fool unless you can convince an entire market that it’s a trillion dollars worth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Look up unlimited money limited. It was a real company

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Max Fosh is an absolute madman. Casually got the richest man in the world for like 2 days.

[–] jj4211 2 points 19 hours ago

No, it has to be something more imaginary than a dollar, and someone else has to actually give you a dollar for it while you claim it's only one trillionth of the amount of imaginary things you could sell to people.

Note a while ago a youtuber did a stunt to illustrate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8SYIksrZeu4