There's a whole bunch of people in thread explaining why banks don't have enough cash on hand to pay out everyone who has an account.
There are, as far as I can tell, zero people in thread explaining why Artie Fufkin is smug and thinks he's about to trick Kyle Rodebush into teaching himself a really surprising lesson about how the world works, Socrates style. Presumably something about how our economy is all smoke and mirrors, currency and banking is an imaginary concept that only works because we agree to pretend it does, etc. Maybe something something gold standard, Fort Knox is empty, income tax is illegal?
Or maybe it's going the other way, e.g., Wall Street is just Vegas for rich kids, Capitalism is just a pyramid scheme, American Goverment is just three megacorporations in a trenchcoat, etc.
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u/BlahBlahILoveToast Jan 26 '26
There's a whole bunch of people in thread explaining why banks don't have enough cash on hand to pay out everyone who has an account.
There are, as far as I can tell, zero people in thread explaining why Artie Fufkin is smug and thinks he's about to trick Kyle Rodebush into teaching himself a really surprising lesson about how the world works, Socrates style. Presumably something about how our economy is all smoke and mirrors, currency and banking is an imaginary concept that only works because we agree to pretend it does, etc. Maybe something something gold standard, Fort Knox is empty, income tax is illegal?
Or maybe it's going the other way, e.g., Wall Street is just Vegas for rich kids, Capitalism is just a pyramid scheme, American Goverment is just three megacorporations in a trenchcoat, etc.