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[–] Hawke 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, money is a magic coupon too. So they just didn’t pay with the right magic coupon.

[–] RedditWanderer 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I agree and get the joke. A long time ago we all agreed it's a bit silly to carry all these valuables around, so we write them on pieces of paper and trade those. The value of an asset the paper represents is magic, but the paper itself has a "direct" value.

Somewhere we decided 50 cows are worth a car, and 10 cars are worth a house. The paper is just to help communicate and trade. Don't hate the paper, hate the game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Krapopolis did an episode that covered it quite well.