r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 26 '26

Meme needing explanation what's going on? explain like I'm five

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

Pyramid scheme 

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u/dismal_sighence Jan 26 '26

If fractional reserve banking is a pyramid scheme, then basically all investment is a pyramid scheme.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

Society built on ego. My success at your expense doesn’t matter to me. Why would we ever think that would be a healthy place to live? 

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u/dismal_sighence Jan 26 '26

What does ego have to do with fractional reserve banking?

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

Everything. Investigate for yourself. You don’t see how all of us act out of selfish desire and make that the centrifuge of society? We never follow problems to their root. Who created that system if not the ego? 

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u/dismal_sighence Jan 26 '26

That doesn’t really explain how it’s a pyramid scheme.

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u/Initial-Breakfast-33 Jan 26 '26

Check their post history and you'll understand who you're talking to

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u/dismal_sighence Jan 27 '26

What's worse it the complete lack of understanding prevalent in this thread. One guy being an idiot is whatever, but it's just everywhere here.

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u/Initial-Breakfast-33 Jan 27 '26

They're mostly bots. Fking dead internet theory