If I only had $23,148,855,308,184,500...

[No Names Left Damn It]

I'd buy the US and institute a new test for citizenship.

Only one question "Are you in favour of universal healthcare"?

The correct answer is yes. 'No' answers get you deported.

Speaking as a supporter of socialised healthcare, that's the most fucking ridiculous thing I've seen you say. You sound like Salin.

[Rejistania]

To be precise, $23,148,855,308,184,500 is going to cause a lot of inflation without gold backing in the currency. Until recently Zimbabweans used to be trading in sums as big as this, using notes like these:



Hyperinflation at this scale has only happened in Zimbabwe and it would be a catastrophe for a scenario like this to happen in America.

It not only happened in Zimbabwe but also in Hungary and Yugoslavia.

[Greed and Death]

To be precise, $23,148,855,308,184,500 is going to cause a lot of inflation without gold backing in the currency. Until recently Zimbabweans used to be trading in sums as big as this, using notes like these:



Hyperinflation at this scale has only happened in Zimbabwe and it would be a catastrophe for a scenario like this to happen in America.

It not only happened in Zimbabwe but also in Hungary and Yugoslavia.

Don't forget Argentina.

[No Names Left Damn It]

Don't forget Argentina.

And Weimar Germany.

[Buffett and Colbert]

I have a zimbabwean banknote somewhere and I KNOW that I've got the coins. Question is, how much are the coins worth?

[Lichwall]

Construct a supervillain-style floating citadel in space.

What else?

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

I have a zimbabwean banknote somewhere and I KNOW that I've got the coins. Question is, how much are the coins worth?

Probably not much. Zimbabwe's economy imploded.

[Forsakia]

To be precise, $23,148,855,308,184,500 is going to cause a lot of inflation without gold backing in the currency. Until recently Zimbabweans used to be trading in sums as big as this, using notes like these:



Hyperinflation at this scale has only happened in Zimbabwe and it would be a catastrophe for a scenario like this to happen in America.

I seem to recall the Zimbabwe dollar had some sort of weird double value thing going on. Since there was the amount the note was worth on exchange markets (i.e. very very little) and there was what people who thought it'd be cool to have a trillion dollar note would pay for it on ebay (somewhat more).

[Charlotte Ryberg]

The RBZ's official exchange rate was in the trillions, the black market rate was in quadrillions, and at eBay it was... whatever for how much the collectors thought it was worth: about £1.10 when I last bought one (so I could frame it).

Here's what I think might happen (noting that the Zim-dollar is suspended as of July 2009), if the Reserve Bank reintroduces it at face value and the exchange rate is less than 100 fifth dollars per American dollar I'd already qualify for the Forbes list along with other numismatists.

[Ifreann]

If I had that kind of money, it would mean nothing, because the value of the dollar would be virtually nothing.

Hmmm....Good point, if you did acquire that amount of money, the first move should be to buy as many precious metals as possible to keep its value...

At that point, the dollar would already have no value, so it would be almost impossible to afford so much of an ounce of gold.

I think the best thing to do would be to use the money to pay off everybody's debt that holds the debt in US dollars, and then proceed to burn the rest of the money in a bonfire in the Federal Reserve building.

It would be interesting to see what lengths people would go to to try and save the piles and piles of money from the bonfire.

[Grave_n_idle]

I'd buy the US and institute a new test for citizenship.

Only one question "Are you in favour of universal healthcare"?

The correct answer is yes. 'No' answers get you deported.

Speaking as a supporter of socialised healthcare, that's the most fucking ridiculous thing I've seen you say. You sound like Salin.

I think it's sad that you have so little knowledge of history, or such a ridiculously skewed perspective.

[No Names Left Damn It]

I think it's sad that you have so little knowledge of history, or such a ridiculously skewed perspective.

Kay great whatever, oh mighty one.

[Grave_n_idle]

I think it's sad that you have so little knowledge of history, or such a ridiculously skewed perspective.

Kay great whatever, oh mighty one.

Uh huh. Because communal healthcare is exactly like executions, secret police, informant programs and forced labour camps.

:rolleyes:

[San Guillermo]

With that kind of money, some of us would be able to fund and create their own nations.

[No Names Left Damn It]

Uh huh. Because communal healthcare is exactly like executions, secret police, informant programs and forced labour camps.

:rolleyes:

Look, deporting someone just because they don't share your socialist views is something a dictator would do.

[Georgetpwn]

I have a zimbabwean banknote somewhere and I KNOW that I've got the coins. Question is, how much are the coins worth?

trade those coins in for scrap metal. they're worth more that way

[Grave_n_idle]

Uh huh. Because communal healthcare is exactly like executions, secret police, informant programs and forced labour camps.

:rolleyes:

Look, deporting someone just because they don't share your socialist views is something a dictator would do.

And all dictatorial policy is identical. Therefore, ruling that contributing to a communal healthplan (in - if you recall the OP, a country I owned) is morally equivalent to purges, assassinations, and rewards schemes for informants?

And - again, you persist in a misdirection - people would be deported for not being citizens. They would become non-citizens by answering that simple question wrong.

And, what's wrong with that? If someone isn't willing to contribute to their society... why WOULD you want them?

[No Names Left Damn It]

And - again, you persist in a misdirection - people would be deported for not being citizens. They would become non-citizens by answering that simple question wrong.

What about people who grew up in your country, but were against socialised healthcare? Do they get kicked out, away from family, friends and loved ones?

[Grave_n_idle]

And - again, you persist in a misdirection - people would be deported for not being citizens. They would become non-citizens by answering that simple question wrong.

What about people who grew up in your country, but were against socialised healthcare? Do they get kicked out, away from family, friends and loved ones?

If they vote incorerctly on the test question, yes, obviously.

If they had any real sense of attachment to their family, friends, and society, they'd vote yes. If for no other reason than to stay.

[West-Flanders]

I have a zimbabwean banknote somewhere and I KNOW that I've got the coins. Question is, how much are the coins worth?

trade those coins in for scrap metal. they're worth more that way

Indeed, coins might be more worth that way than most zimbabwian paper banknotes. As a matter of fact, at a certain point it costed more to produce a banknote (paper, ink, printing) than the note was worth. They were making money with a loss! So they decided printing bigger notes,.. fueling the inflation even more.

[Milks Empire]

Bahamas! I would Buy the Bahamas.

Why stop there, you can have the whole Caribbean!!! All the Rum you could drink!

Can I borrow enough rum to make two piña coladas?

[Vetalia]

If they had any real sense of attachment to their family, friends, and society, they'd vote yes. If for no other reason than to stay.

I think that's sort of the policy North Korea uses in regard to emigrants. I guess it works...

[Grave_n_idle]

If they had any real sense of attachment to their family, friends, and society, they'd vote yes. If for no other reason than to stay.

I think that's sort of the policy North Korea uses in regard to emigrants. I guess it works...

North Korea encourages people that don't like the regime to resettle?

[Maurepas]

If they had any real sense of attachment to their family, friends, and society, they'd vote yes. If for no other reason than to stay.

I think that's sort of the policy North Korea uses in regard to emigrants. I guess it works...

North Korea encourages people that don't like the regime to resettle?

I think they "resettle" them into Prisons, as well as the more traditional, bringing them out back to put a bullet in their head,

[The Alma Mater]

I have a zimbabwean banknote somewhere and I KNOW that I've got the coins. Question is, how much are the coins worth?

trade those coins in for scrap metal. they're worth more that way

Indeed, coins might be more worth that way than most zimbabwian paper banknotes. As a matter of fact, at a certain point it costed more to produce a banknote (paper, ink, printing) than the note was worth. They were making money with a loss! So they decided printing bigger notes,.. fueling the inflation even more.

A lot of money, including that in western nations, costs more to produce than the value it represents. Making a dime tends to cost more than a dime for instance.

But that is fine since money will not be used only once. The dime will represent the value of a dime millions of times during its lifetime.

As for the main question - hello interstellar starship.