• Emi@ani.social
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    6 hours ago

    I’ll never understand how economies work, I just assume it’s all imaginary money.

    • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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      50 minutes ago

      Effectively, no one can buy Russian goods so no one wants to buy Russia currency.

      As such, it has low value as everyone is trying to get rid of something that is worthless to them, and a willing to accept a lower price to do so.

      Or using high school economics- lots of suppliers, low number of buyers, value drops.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
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      3 hours ago

      Speculative economics is literally definitionally imaginary. In this case, it’s because of real factors with Russia’s GDP - the massive amount of trade embargoes on Russia meaning they can’t really import or export a lot of the stuff they would have made money on, as well as them grinding all their young men (who would otherwise be working) into a pulp.

    • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      All moneyis imaginary. Economics works by allowing some people with a lot of imaginary money to exploit (the planet and) people that depends on them by giving miniscule amounts of imaginary money, just enough to survive.