Be nice

It now costs $1 to own more than a billion dollars in assets for one *microsecond. We're talking total value here assets, property.

Bezos would be down to a billion in just over 2 days.

1$ footlongs.

That’s not a good or service. Fucking low bar for humor, holy shit.

Henceforth, $1 shall cost $1. Inflation solved.

Does this one need a sarcasm tag? I don't like using em but this joke is going to start zero fun conversations

Sarcasm acknowledged. If it were possible, what do you think the world would look like if inflation were 0% for a few decades? I hope this is a fun conversation. If not, I'll settle for another joke, amusing anecdote or icy silence with a judgmental stare.
- if inflation were 0% for a few decades
  "You obviously know nothing of how the real world works."
  Was going to type a whole bullshit essay with random made up stats and facts to make your idle question look malicious and uninformed, but I just cant be arsed. Can we just pretend I was a cunt for mild chuckles?
- I'd enjoy the topic at a less busy time of life. I'm being kept tired, distracted, and poor lately as a systematic form of oppressive totalitarian rule - and that's just from my kid!
- The assumed reason for inflation, as I understand it, is that on one hand things devalue over time and on the other we build our system around infinite growth and rewarding innovation (many asterisks here…)
  During the Middle Ages, neither statements were considered true, the world was considered stagnant and there was virtually no inflation. That was before the banking system - so with 0% inflation i would expect the banks to collapse…
  And then… I don’t know! Stuff is hard and economics harder…
- 🥶
- Most cryptos are deflationary. That seems to cause hoarding.
  Having no inflation sounds good to me if paired with no growth in population, but I know little about economics.
- Judgemental stare
- Time preferences would be lengthened due to lower interest rates. People would save instead of taking on more debt. It would be harder to get a loan, but your real interest rate would be lower.
  Instead of deliberately encouraging consumption, everyone would buy less stuff. This would be terrible for "the economy" (rich people) but great for people who live in the environment.
The genie just made 1 US Dollar equal to 1 Australian dollar. One problem solved, another created.
Shrinkflation

$2 now costs $1

Economy killed in a single move. 😅
- I'm putting a 100% tarrif on $1
Congrats, everything has doubled in price overnight.

Rent.

Make cents
- Nice. Here, have a penny for your thoughts.
Fuck rent. Home ownership. And 2 homes max.
- Wait. It's possible to actually own a house? I thought only boomers were allowed to. I checked what mortgage I could get. I'm able to purchase a parking spot.
  And 2 homes max.
  Why would you need 2 houses?
I'll go a step further and say residential property.
Ok, you get a maximum of 1 sqr feet for that and no paying for a bigger flat.
- Feet? I'm not Tarantino
- This is a huge win for tiny contortionists.
RIP rentable apartments
If only residential rents really were capped at $1, what do you think would happen? In this scenario, I'm assuming it's limited to one per household. That is, a family or individual can't rent multiples at $1, just the one.
Per square feet?
- My feet have a normal foot form, not square. That seems impractical.

It now costs $1 to buy everything that a billionaire owns

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Star Trek matter replicator (batteries included)

Hell yes infinite beans!
- 500 cigarettes.

Self actualization.

Boom, straight to the top, fuck you Maslow.

How does that work if I've still got a dead-end job though?
- Smile more

Housing.

Which means house holders will buy it more
- Legal limit of 2 per household. Illegal for corporations to own housing of any kind. Immediate sell-off mandatory.

My smile. Time to make the world a better place.

Asking a price for something costs 1€ for every 0,50€ now.

I didn't understand this. Could I have an example?
- You want to sell an apple for 3€. That is 6 × 50 ct. For every 50 ct you ask in price you have to pay 1€. Therefore if you ask a price of 3€ for an apple you have to pay 6 × 1€ = 6€.
- i think they mean its 1 euro for every 50c of the price being checked? so if the item is 2 euros asking for the price costs 4 euros.

To whom does the money go?

To me of course
Free Parking so that the game can drag out indefinitely.

2 bedroom apartment

Unfortunately a three bedroom still costs $2000, I don't understand it either
Man, that jump to a 3rd is STEEP

The cost of all stuffed animals at a thrift shop.

Then I could easily work on increasing the amount of rescues I will have. It's currently 1.5 rescue to 4 others ( purchased at a store, gift shop, gift, etcetera ).

My goal to someday have more rescues than store bought would be a little easier.

Oh yeah, and kids would have an easier time accessing them because $1 stuffed animals are a lot easier to convince a parent to buy than a $5.99 stuffed animal. But I don't like kids, so they were an afterthought!

Currently it costs direct air capture startup "Climeworks" about 1200 usd to remove one metric ton of CO2 from the atmosphere, the average human directly emits about 0.8 kg of CO2 a day (just through breathing).

Thus, breathing costs 1 USD a day to offset using "Direct Air Capture".

the economy

Was about to say some index fund or smth.

My rent

Bro you could have said mortgage
- Ngl, the thought of ever getting to own my own home is still so far out of my reach that I just don't think about it as a possibility most of the time.
- I would have just gone with housing.