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Re:Battle to wipe out debilitating Guinea worm parasite hits... by gibba999 on Saturday October 05, 2019 @08:44AM (#21165193)
... only it doesn't work.

Those models work very well on a short-term timescale. We have major upheavals every few hundred years. At that point, the fiat money in the bank account disappears. Once eradicated, the worm doesn't come back.

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Re:Battle to wipe out debilitating Guinea worm parasite hits... by sbierwagen on Saturday October 05, 2019 @11:50AM (#21166174)
You seem distracted by the use of the word “dollars”. No need to be so literal, they’re just using them as an abstract unit of value. It can be replaced with milligrams of gold or Satoshis without loss of meaning.
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Re:Battle to wipe out debilitating Guinea worm parasite hits... by gibba999 on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:36PM (#21186208)
It can. And that gold sits around until the Germanic tribes invade Rome and take it all. Major upheavals affect all systems.
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