Changing 1 to 0 - Rick and Morty [season 3]
Why Hacker News recommends it
Posted as a joke reply in threads about money, currency and monetary systems.
What it is
A short clip from Rick and Morty season 3, episode 1, in which Rick changes a 1 to a 0.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2020 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Cites peter_d_sherman · 2021-04 · on “Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme”
>"Money only works because we all agree to believe in it." Not only that, but it's a derivative (or perceived derivative!) of an underlying value, which in turn can be another derivative! A long time ago, that was Gold, which in turn is a derivative of food and everything else that can be purchased by Gold. Early U.S. pennies, for example, had pictures of wheat stalks on them, the idea "you can use this coin to buy wheat (food)" (storage of value of food) is present in that picture... If you really want to go back in time, when you have food that doesn't rot and doesn't decay over long periods (for example, dry noodles), then we can see the noodles themselves as "storage" for the "value" of