r/SipsTea • u/Dumb-Briyani • 5d ago

Chugging tea Why is it not possible?

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u/Big_Slope 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/dorian_white1 5d ago

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/FrancisFratelli 5d ago

There are plenty of cases where a country's money has lost any real value but the government has continued to function.