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It's almost like those things are important somehow.
Of course losing your keys is a big deal, what absolute nonsense is this?
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The comic is poking fun at the absurdity of modern life, that we need those things to survive at all.
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There is no form of currency that doesn't sound absurd when you phrase it a certain way.
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The best absurdity is global finance .... the idea and belief that there is trillions of dollars worth of promised wealth everywhere yet the majority of it doesn't exist, except as promissory funds or glorified paper IOUs, yet we have so much faith in it that that belief is what runs our modern world.
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If you have a dollar, and lend it to me, and I lend it to my friend Alice, we have 1 dollar, but the total debt is 2$.
Nobody is claiming there are trillions of wealth around. But there are trillions worth of debts. Because countries, companies and people lend to each others a lot.
How’s that absurd?
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I seem to remember one techno-Asian-dystopia book that may have highlighted this, where every week all the major banks have a ceremonial exchange of tons of gold bricks, as a proof to solidify their claims of having money that’s owed/exchanged.
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Holy shit it's been long since I read three panel soul and they are still going huh? Cool stuff
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