Comment on The 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.

lath@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa

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• Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  One sec, let me ask an AI about that

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• nanlux_user@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IIRC it was Zimbabwe?

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• jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hyperinflation in Germany after WW1? But I think there must be more examples.

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• e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i wouldn’t mind wiping my ass with cheeto-face

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  • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is a toilet paper that has his face on it, I bought some.

    Prayers weren’t working, I’ll try anything.

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• richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They hadn’t mastered the Argentinian custom of changing currency to remove zeros.

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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