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Trump thinks that receiving fiat currency is more valuable than material goods.

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 60 points 5 days ago (1 children)

“A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of its people.”

Not even shiny metals anymore, just electronic numbers you yourself create.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They should just sit Trump down at a computer open to a page labeled “America Money” and it’s just a quadrillion dollar counter continuously ticking up

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

An old Geocities hit counter, but with a dollar sign in front of it

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I miss hit counters.

Years ago, I was having a dispute with a business partner, whonturned out to be a criminal, so I told the story on my company website, with a hit counter on the page. The higher the hit counter went, the more desperate this guy got. Eventually he decided to settle, primarily because that hit counter was showing him daily how many more people knew he was a criminal shithead.

The hit counter:

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 days ago

and a blinking "Under Construction" sign