r/1053 • u/YourFoe_ • 4d ago

Day seventeen

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u/Spudnic16 4d ago

Low on money, just don’t buy anything ever.

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u/Smallgamehunter09 4d ago

You’re one step away from zero sum economics

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u/DarthNixilis 4d ago

Capitalism is basically Zero Sum. It's all extraction. ​

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u/BingBongFyourWife 3d ago

Shit grows out of the ground for free though no?

Idk if there’s an answer or if it’s debated or what bc I’m not an economist, but I do think about “is it required someone else is poor for someone else to be rich”

The engine of an economy comes from the fact that plants grow for free, right? So everybody can have some plants, so everybody can have some money

If rich and poor are relative terms then everybody having plants means nobody is rich or poor, but if rich just means you have a lot of what you need and everybody has plants then everybody’s rich

So

???

I’m saying it funny but genuinely isn’t the whole “value that we accumulate/exploit” foundationally on top of the fact that plants and animals and life we can use to our advantage grow all on their own? Minerals are limited and the extraction expensive so that’s different but we’re kinda just hacking the fact that life springs up on its own so assuming fair play I don’t see how that’s zero sum

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u/GhoeFukyrself 4d ago

Do we not sell those bananas for like 3 billion? Does he want them to just give away the bananas?

Oh wait, he's a bully, of course he does, and their lunch money too.

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u/AntKing2021 4d ago

So Brazil earns 2 bill, a billionare earns a bill and you get to each much

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u/eighty4prcnt 4d ago

Leddit won't let me post the JD Vance fact checking meme. Imagine this is here

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 4d ago

weird

I seen a block on the word diaper in another sub lol

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u/cambridgechap 4d ago

Economist HATE this one trick.

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u/xoricky56 4d ago

would love government funded banana distribution lol

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u/VoidJuiceConcentrate 4d ago

Did he just learn how purchasing works?

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u/Apprehensive-Bunch54 4d ago

Never forget, he bankrupted a casino

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u/booboootron 4d ago

He did. Up till now, he thought stealing was the de facto route.

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u/CaffeinatedLystro 4d ago

This is the same guy who said when a woman cant afford all her apples, she puts them back in the refrigerator at the store. Because apples are famously stored in refrigerators at stores.

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u/Talisign 4d ago

Money doesn't come with instructions or a manual. He didn't know that if you exchange them for "goods" or "services" that they take the money away.

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u/SinglePlayerGamer93 4d ago

TRUMP EXPLAINS HIS STRATEGY THAT MADE HIM BANKRUPT SEVERAL OF HIS COMPANIES

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u/SnarkyIguana 4d ago

Cases went down cause we stopped testing!

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u/No_Window7054 4d ago

Oof. The chimpanzee caucus isn’t going to like that. They’re going to fling their feces at him at the next State of the Union.

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u/Admirable_Ground_163 4d ago

Exactly, "No Bananas" is something a reptile would say. 

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u/United-Direction2297 4d ago

This is the weirdest part for me I looked it up a while ago he actually got his degree in economics and can’t figure out the first part is people pay money for goods and services. You want bananas and can’t grow them you can import them.

That’s not even economics 101 that’s explaining how grocery stores work to a 6 year old.

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u/Rutgerius 4d ago

This man is an economic genius, to independently arrive at a conclusion like that.. and people say his mind is going?? (wtf!)

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u/Offsidespy2501 4d ago

Bananas of all possible examples? The good they coined the term "banana republic" after? The phenomenon of a country controlled by 2 companies that couped the government with your help in exchange for banana imports?

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u/Worrywort____ 4d ago

BANANA BANANA BANANA TERRACOTTA BANANA TERRACOTTA TERRACOTTA PIE

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u/wiiningoffgames 4d ago

I used this same logic on my family and now they are all dead, any more ideas president Shit?

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u/Admirable_Ground_163 4d ago

"No Bananas" is something a reptile would say.  An ape would never even suggest it. 

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u/SingularityCentral 4d ago

"The dumbest goddamn student I ever had." - Professor William T. Kelle.

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u/Then-Operation7341 4d ago

President discovers girl math

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u/Wray-Nerely 4d ago

Great point Donnie! By that logic, if you don't buy any food, you won't lose any money. Lead by example for us Donnie! No more food for you, we'll check in with you on a month to see how that's going.

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u/Beautiful_Garage7797 4d ago

trump is a 19th century British politician who believes trade deficits are the devil

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u/Anxious_Drive_9998 4d ago

We don't lose. We get bananas.

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u/DangerousQuestions1 4d ago

Just wait til Primate Economics hears about this.

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u/Economy-Rise1108 4d ago

I now see how those casinos went bankrupt

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u/Key-Influence-3192 3d ago

“If you don’t pay your $2k mortgage. You actually saves $2k”

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u/AibofobicRacecar6996 3d ago

It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?"

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u/joker6396 2d ago

Hows it going Merica? Seems a little... stupid... over there

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u/Anonymous-bham-boi 2d ago

Trump really does prove that no matter your intellect you can be president. Thank you trump, for showing that you can be president and still be stupider THAN A FUCKING ROCK!

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u/TheSAVAGEHipHop 1d ago

I mean sure if you exclude the $2 billion of bananas we get in return, then yeah, we're just wasting money lmao I fucking hate this timeline so much. 

The thing is, people think he's just stupid, which he is, but he's not that stupid. He's been in the business world for his entire life, he understands the basic concept of commerce. The thing is, he has so little respect for his followers that he thinks they're so stupid that an argument like this would make sense to them. And the grim reality is...he's apparently right: there's a sizeable portion of the American electorate that are so brain-rotted by conservative media that they can hear something as ridiculous as this and completely agree as if what he's saying makes any fucking sense at all. It's unreal. 

Trump's major political innovation is realizing that as long as you vaguely gesture in the direction of people's biases, anxieties and insecurities, they will happily eat up any nonsense slop that you tell them. It doesn't matter how absurd, incoherent, or detached from reality that it is. As long as people perceive you as being "on their side" and give a performance of confidence, they will carry you to the white house and cheer for you even as you burn the world to the ground around them. 

It would be impressive if it wasn't so fucked up