Rick Sanchez
3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2020–2021
1:17 · 214K views · Apr 2, 2017
A short clip from Rick and Morty season 3, episode 1, in which Rick changes a 1 to a 0.
Posted as a joke reply in threads about money, currency and monetary systems.
3 comments from Hacker News
>"Money only works because we all agree to believe in it." Not only that, but it's a derivative (or perceived derivative!) of an underlying value, which in turn can be another derivative! A long time ago, that was Gold, which in turn is a derivative of food and everything else that can be purchased by Gold. Early U.S. pennies, for example, had pictures of wheat stalks on them, the idea "you can use this coin to buy wheat (food)" (storage of value of food) is present in that picture... If you really want to go back in time, when you have food that doesn't rot and doesn't decay over long periods (for example, dry noodles), then we can see the noodles themselves as "storage" for the "value" of the underlying wheat (which decays much faster when not in noodle form). In fact, you might argue that nature's nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts, peanuts, etc., etc.) -- because they were food that could be stored for a long periods of time without rotting -- were the first historical "storage of value", and thus the first currency... Perhaps that's why everyone is so "nutty" -- about money! <g> Also, in any system where object A (stock certificate, money, IOU, metal, physical object, digital identifier, etc.) -- is a storage of value for some underlying value, or something which is value derived from somewhere else, or a chain of derivatives -- you have the potential (in those systems) for a) Ponzi Schemes (correctly or incorrectly called this) and b) Hyperinflation and c) Hyperdeflation and d) T
Yeah, reminds me of this: this video Money is the substrate of virtually all of society beyond a handful of your peers. If you utterly destroyed it, society would collapse.
"The practices employed by Central Banks are not fig leaves - those rules are how we define money and are maybe the most important rules in any country." heh - this video