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QOTD Thread #332- Do you think that people should keep cats outdoors?
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Post by
Rankkor
but the guests of honor on mah house would be: (Drummers pls) Elura and Facesmasher.
Are you saying I'm like facemasher?
As fascinating. Your minds are exotic creations, though in vastly different ways.
Exactly.
Your minds are fascinating, though in very different and unique ways.
Cats.
^
Post by
OverZealous
So...nice to know who my friends are :P
#173- What would you like a limitless supply of?
I'd love to have lunch with you, but since you're so busy and haven't been able to read my stuff yet, I figured you'd be too busy any way
>:D
Anyway, if "Wishes" do not count, I'll go with brains. I'd hand them out to stupid people.
Post by
Izichial
Cats.
But you can't hug every one of them!
Post by
Adamsm
Money; so I can then have endless supplies of all the other stuff I love.
Post by
Rystrave
Money; so I can then have endless supplies of all the other stuff I love.
Wise.
Post by
Rankkor
Money; so I can then have endless supplies of all the other stuff I love.
Nah, while I'd love to have "more" money, having too much money ends some problems, while opening up a whole slew of new ones. IMO, not worth it.
Having too much money means painting a bullseye on the back of your head, or the heads of your loved ones. Be it from kidnapers hoping to get some ransom, to flat out corrupt politicians or extremists hoping to get what's yours.
I want to have more money, sure, but from that, to have endless amounts of it, nah. Besides, as an economist I know that money is only worth anything because its limited. IF you had a magic box that conjures up endless stacks of money, you would effectively devalue the worth of money to nothing. Maybe not overnight, but it would happen eventually. Unless the magic box systematically destroyed someone else's money before giving you any.
Post by
Monday
Data.
Post by
Adamsm
Money; so I can then have endless supplies of all the other stuff I love.
Nah, while I'd love to have "more" money, having too much money ends some problems, while opening up a whole slew of new ones. IMO, not worth it.
Having too much money means painting a bullseye on the back of your head, or the heads of your loved ones. Be it from kidnapers hoping to get some ransom, to flat out corrupt politicians or extremists hoping to get what's yours.
I want to have more money, sure, but from that, to have endless amounts of it, nah. Besides, as an economist I know that money is only worth anything because its limited. IF you had a magic box that conjures up endless stacks of money, you would effectively devalue the worth of money to nothing. Maybe not overnight, but it would happen eventually. Unless the magic box systematically destroyed someone else's money before giving you any.
Heh, honestly Rank, I've always been that way; if I ever get a Genie wish, I'd wish for a wallet that always has the exact amount of money I need for a purchase every time.
Post by
Kristopher
I would like an infinite amount of limited-per-day spending money. If I don't spend it all in one day, 5% of the remaining balance accumulates towards a monthly bonus amount. Might that solve some of the problems that you've posed, Rank?
Post by
gamerunknown
Crack cocaine. It's a hell of a drug.
Serious answer: energy. As in, a perpetual motion machine. That would solve quite a few of the major problems on Earth. Someone else, wish for a limitless supply of computational power, that'd solve almost all of the remaining ones.
Post by
Interest
Money; so I can then have endless supplies of all the other stuff I love.
Going to have to agree. This is pretty much exactly what I was going to say the moment I saw the thread.
Post by
OverZealous
Money; so I can then have endless supplies of all the other stuff I love.
Going to have to agree. This is pretty much exactly what I was going to say the moment I saw the thread.
So boring. Surely, there is something more interesting.
Post by
Adamsm
Ah, but money is the way to do all of those interesting things heh.
Post by
oneforthemoney
Eh?
Post by
Rankkor
Money; so I can then have endless supplies of all the other stuff I love.
Nah, while I'd love to have "more" money, having too much money ends some problems, while opening up a whole slew of new ones. IMO, not worth it.
Having too much money means painting a bullseye on the back of your head, or the heads of your loved ones. Be it from kidnapers hoping to get some ransom, to flat out corrupt politicians or extremists hoping to get what's yours.
I want to have more money, sure, but from that, to have endless amounts of it, nah. Besides, as an economist I know that money is only worth anything because its limited. IF you had a magic box that conjures up endless stacks of money, you would effectively devalue the worth of money to nothing. Maybe not overnight, but it would happen eventually. Unless the magic box systematically destroyed someone else's money before giving you any.
Heh, honestly Rank, I've always been that way; if I ever get a Genie wish, I'd wish for a wallet that always has the exact amount of money I need for a purchase every time.
but man, don't you know that the moment you mass-produce endless amounts of money it stops being valuable?
Didn't you saw the Twilight Zone? There was this episode where a group of robbers hijacked a train carrying a huge amount of gold. Then to avoid being pursued for the rest of their lives, their leader cryogenically froze them, and they all woke up 100 years later. Their own greed made them kill each other one by one to get a bigger slice of the gold bars.
By the time there's only 1 of them left, he's running on the desert, carrying a heavy sack of gold and no water. Eventually a couple in a futuristic-looking car finds the last robber. Dehydrated, starved, and dying of thirst in the middle of the desert, he offers them his entire sack of gold for just water. But dies.
As the couple walked back to the car, the husband asks his wife: "Don't you think that was odd? him offering GOLD to us, he seemed to think it was still worth anything. Didn't he learned that gold stopped being valuable the moment we discovered how to mass produce it?"
Point being: Money is only valuable because its scarse. Introducing an endless supply of it to the market will devaluate the coin, making it useless.
This is the reason why in "Full Metal Alchemist" of the three laws all alchemists must follow is to
not
transmute gold, even though it is a simple transmutation in The Verse, in order to keep the economy from destabilizing.
Post by
Adamsm
True Rank...however, I doubt a few dozen dollars here and there will mess it up as much as you think; like I said, I just want enough to be able to pay the amount for whatever I'm buying at that exact moment; I'm not gonna go nuts and start buying everything and anything lol.
Post by
Monday
However, if only one person had infinite money and he controlled how much he spent, it wouldn't destabilize the economy.
Post by
Rankkor
I guess the economist in my head gets a little nit-pickety about stuff like this.
My version of that same wish, would be simply to get a large sum of money. Not infinite, but large enough so I can invest it on a profitable business like a Restaurant. And presto, I'm set for life, employees work for me, and all I gotta do is collect my cut, always have money, and not have to work.
Of course, having a trust-worthy honest manager is a must. People like that aint easy to come by =/
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