This is the second of fourteen trolley problem memes I saved a decade ago. There’s another batch down the line from a month or so after that.

  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    Most of the money is virtual, and vanishes with their shitty companies. They buy mansions with bank loans that are based on the imaginary collateral and some sort of assumption the billionaires will pay them back someday.

    I’m pretty sure that’s what’s really keeping the system in place.

    • youcantreadthis@quokk.au
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      23 days ago

      Money has always been fake pure abstraction the difference between a coin and a poker chip is how cool it is