Is human life valuable or valueless?

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

After two pages, if a thread is still refering to even a single word of the original subject, it is doing very well indeed.

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And probably gets moved out of chit chat to a serious forum? That would be dreadful!

Btw, I am reading The Ascent of Money, which contains a trillion-dollar worth note from Germany, after WW-1. The book also mentions the inflation rate in Zimbabwe as measured in 2008 was 100,000 per cent!

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Originally Posted by FunkyDexter

How did they carry the money to the shop when they went to buy the wheel barrow?

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:lol:

I'll have to ask them that!

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I am reading The Ascent of Money

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I read that a couple of months ago. He explains things very well.

I just noticed the tags on this thread: [Derailed Thread] and [Eastern European Geography]. Inspired!

[Derailed thread] could apply to most thread in chitchat.

Since they are not using the Zimbabwe dollar any more you can get the Zimbabwe trillion dollar bills for next to nothing. They are selling them on ebay.

http://coins.shop.ebay.com/?_from=R4...y&_sacat=11116

This is a very good investment. It's not every day you can spend $ 2.99 and get 100 trillions dollars for it.

This probably doesn't fit with the original thread title, but now that it has been derailed, let me post it here. The recent India visit of Obama is supposed to be costing INR 15 lakhs every hour. With the detailed security measures taken by the US, Mr President has been creating a virtual White House everywhere he goes. With the US economy more derailed than this thread, can you guys actually afford to spend so much money on a visit that achieves nothing? Couldn't he just have had a teleconference?

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It wont seem much when you look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar..._United_States

How much would it seem if we put it against the average per capita income of the average joe?

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Originally Posted by honeybee

average joe

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Nobody cares about him. :)

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Originally Posted by baja_yu

Nobody cares about him. :)

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Except on election day.:mad:

The median income in the US is right around $50,000/yr. The population is somewhere above 350 million people. Therefore, you can do the math. I come out with 17.5 trillion annually. I have no idea what that means, though, as I have totally lost track of what the point was....assuming I ever had a grasp of it.

So the total US budget is something over 3 trillion, and they spend the third of it on the military... I have a great idea on how they can fix the economy.