Allah@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 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-square56fedilinkarrow-up1230arrow-down13
arrow-up1227arrow-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 · 8 hours agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squarelath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·7 hours agoAnyone remember which country had an inflation so bad, it issued trillion dollar bills useful only as toilet paper?
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 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-squareFunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·7 hours agoOne sec, let me ask an AI about that
minus-squarerichieadler@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours agoThey hadn’t mastered the Argentinian custom of changing currency to remove zeros.
minus-squarejellyfishhunter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 hours agoHyperinflation in Germany after WW1? But I think there must be more examples.
minus-squaree8CArkcAuLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 hours agoi wouldn’t mind wiping my ass with cheeto-face
minus-squareSeeMarkFly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 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
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.
One sec, let me ask an AI about that
They hadn’t mastered the Argentinian custom of changing currency to remove zeros.
Hyperinflation in Germany after WW1? But I think there must be more examples.
IIRC it was Zimbabwe?
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.