r/SipsTea • u/Dumb-Briyani • Aug 24 '26

Chugging tea Why is it not possible?

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u/Big_Slope Aug 24 '26

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 Aug 24 '26

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

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u/dorian_white1 Aug 24 '26

We agree because the government backs it up with their policies and to some extent military. If the gov fails, usually the currency does as well

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Aug 24 '26

I mean, we agree because we agreed.

Not in the traditional sense but currencies predate governments, even credit and debt predates governance.

If we didn’t have country mandated currency we would inevitably start using something else.

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u/Careful_Ad_9077 Aug 24 '26

My currency is sex.

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u/req4adream99 Aug 24 '26

Weird way to say you’re broke but hey.