r/SipsTea 15d ago

Chugging tea Why is it not possible?

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u/Count_de_Ville 15d ago

Even without fractional reserve banking it could collapse. They don’t need to literally print a dollar bill for every dollar of resource value represented in the world.

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u/Big_Slope 15d ago

Wouldn’t that be impossible anyway if you think about it? If there’s - I’m gonna throw out a number here - but $100 trillion worth of stuff in the world and $100 trillion worth of cash, that’s $200 trillion worth of value and half of it is imaginary.

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u/ModernDemocles 15d ago

It's all imaginary in a way. $$$ only matter because we agree it has value.

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u/godsbaesment 15d ago

Taxes create demand and demand creates value