[trhr]

You're confusing real money with fake money. In America, we can only withdraw so much real money every day, too. The banks will tell you things like "We only keep $2000 in real money in the safe."

But the fake money never gets printed. It just lives in bits and bytes. You can move it around as much as you want.

Fortunately, it's as good as real money. It's just not as good as real wealth. Real wealth is in ammunition. Never goes down in price, skyrockets in price when the world gets more dangerous, and can be used to protect itself. That's where America has you beat, because we can turn fake money into ammunition whenever we want, as fast as we want.

Not to mention, it's a consumable resource that keeps well in storage but requires a high level of technology to produce. And even under non-apocalyptic conditions, it's about half as efficient as silver coins by weight and volume.

People downvoting this are politically opposed to guns because that's the fashionable thing to be in SV, but hackers have a strong gun culture. Always have, always will. Because we're practically all either anarchists or military.

[anonymouskimmer]

> People downvoting this are politically opposed to guns

Are you sure they're not downvoting you for being completely off topic while ranting about a hobbyhorse?

[trhr]

They could be. It's highly possible a bunch of engineers watched their backyard bank collapse and thought, "this is fine, I'm not worried, I'm a millionaire" when they don't even own a fuckin' home.