re: #82 Targetpractice

These must be the sort of folks who were left practically catatonic by the end of The Dark Knight, totally unable to understand why the Joker burned those pallets of money when he could have invested it all and lived like a king instead.

Money is government debt. Think of banknotes as IOUs. If you had issued a big pile of IOUs and got value in return (renting or purchasing property, buying food, electricity, paying workers etc.) and someone burnt those IOUs rather than trading them around as people do with banknotes you’d be ecstatic since you’d never have to pay back the value they represent.