Allah@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours 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-square68fedilinkarrow-up1298arrow-down15 cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
arrow-up1293arrow-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 · 13 hours agomessage-square68fedilink cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
minus-squarelath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·12 hours agoAnyone remember which country had an inflation so bad, it issued trillion dollar bills useful only as toilet paper?
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
minus-squareFunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·12 hours agoOne sec, let me ask an AI about that
minus-squarejellyfishhunter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 hours agoHyperinflation in Germany after WW1? But I think there must be more examples.
minus-squarePalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-243 minutes agoWheelbarrows of cash will be needed to buy groceries if that happens
minus-squarerichieadler@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoThey hadn’t mastered the Argentinian custom of changing currency to remove zeros.
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours 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.
minus-squaree8CArkcAuLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·12 hours agoi wouldn’t mind wiping my ass with cheeto-face
minus-squareSeeMarkFly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·12 hours agoThere is a toilet paper that has his face on it, I bought some. Prayers weren’t working, I’ll try anything.
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.
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.
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.