Allah@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.archive.isexternal-linkmessage-square84linkfedilinkarrow-up1422arrow-down112
arrow-up1410arrow-down1external-linkThe AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.archive.isAllah@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square84linkfedilink
minus-squarelath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·2 months agoAnyone remember which country had an inflation so bad, it issued trillion dollar bills useful only as toilet paper?
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
minus-squareFunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoOne sec, let me ask an AI about that
minus-squarejellyfishhunter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoHyperinflation in Germany after WW1? But I think there must be more examples.
minus-squarePalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoWheelbarrows of cash will be needed to buy groceries if that happens
minus-squarerichieadler@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThey hadn’t mastered the Argentinian custom of changing currency to remove zeros.
minus-squaree8CArkcAuLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoi wouldn’t mind wiping my ass with cheeto-face
minus-squareSeeMarkFly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoThere is a toilet paper that has his face on it, I bought some. Prayers weren’t working, I’ll try anything.
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThe closest you can get to that is if you vacation in Vietnam. One Euro is about 30,000 Vietnamese đồng. Yeah, it’s really called like that. Buy a Coca Cola with a 100,000 bill, pull a few million out of the ATM.
Anyone remember which country had an inflation so bad, it issued trillion dollar bills useful only as toilet paper?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
One sec, let me ask an AI about that
IIRC it was Zimbabwe?
Hyperinflation in Germany after WW1? But I think there must be more examples.
Wheelbarrows of cash will be needed to buy groceries if that happens
They hadn’t mastered the Argentinian custom of changing currency to remove zeros.
i wouldn’t mind wiping my ass with cheeto-face
There is a toilet paper that has his face on it, I bought some.
Prayers weren’t working, I’ll try anything.
The closest you can get to that is if you vacation in Vietnam. One Euro is about 30,000 Vietnamese đồng. Yeah, it’s really called like that. Buy a Coca Cola with a 100,000 bill, pull a few million out of the ATM.