Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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People are out there right now trying to correct every grammar mistake on the internet. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 4 months ago by Daft_ish to c/showerthoughts

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, money works like that too. It's not like we value money because paper is rare, we just all collectively agreed to use it to make exchanges easier

[–] Dasus 1 points 4 months ago

Well you're not wrong, but we used to have the gold standard, and that worked because of the rarity of gold.

Also most "paper money" isn't actually paper, but cotton/plastic