Comment on $1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go?
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 1 week ago
nowhere, the total amount of money in the world is zero. one man’s dollar is another man’s debt. if somebody loses money, somebody else loses debt, so the net sum is still zero.
DangerNooble@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ehh, this is not a good way to think about it.
It’s more like money borrows value from the future.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 1 week ago
how so?