On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com > wrote:
> Kay C Lan wrote: > > I look in my wallet an there are a couple of notes and a couple of plastic >> cards. The notes represent about 0.01% of iMoney I have in my account. I >> can >> use those plastic cards to access the BankCloud and if the strangers at >> the >> Bank are willing, the machine will give me more real money on a 1 to 1 >> reduction of my iMoney. Sometimes I don't even have to change iMoney into >> real money, I just go to the shop and transfer iMoney from my account to >> their iMoney account which all resides in the same BankCloud. Of course I >> have to pay a 'rental' fee for the privilege of being able to access my >> iMoney at virtually any time or shop. But then again, if a stranger at the >> bank goes all Nick Leeson on me, the bank will collapse and my iMoney in >> the >> BankCloud will disappear like the early morning stratocumulus, leaving me >> without any real money. >> >> Strange what we think we'd never do. >> > > Or even stranger, we could trust our money to so-called professional money > managers who mishandle it so badly that the world economy is brought to the > edge of collapse. ;) > This video is a very informative explanation of where money 'actually' comes from. It's shocking if you've not seen it before. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544# ˜Roger _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
