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[-] lolola@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

Can you at least unlock it later with experience points or in-game currency?

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

Is money just irl in game currency?

[-] explodicle@local106.com 7 points 1 year ago
[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

What happened then? Gold standard?

[-] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 1 year ago

The Nixon Shock was the end of the Bretton Woods system (kinda sorta a gold standard) and the beginning of unlimited inflation we see today. Everything absolutely went to shit after Nixon, especially inequality.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Is gold actually worth something though? Most of it's value is also just because it lasts a long time and we all think it is valuable. And I disagree that things have gotten worse only since Nixon

[-] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry if I implied the world in general has only gotten worse since then. I was referring to the money supply and its consequences.

Why do you say "most"?

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Gold has some value from use in corrosion resistant cables, contacts, or telescopes, but it's mostly just an agreed upon store of value like any other currency

[-] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 1 year ago

So it is worth something then.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I mean usd cash can be used for fire kindling. Both get the vast majority of their value from our collective decision to think that they are valuable.

[-] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 1 year ago

That's a quality of the paper it's printed on, regardless of denomination.

[-] Confuzzeled@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Six points for every pedestrian you hit? Double for cyclists.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You earn XP by using the turn signals so…. no it’s basically impossible to level up by playing

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