I remember reading an article interviewing a man who lived through the early aughts Argentine Great Depression and he said the best horde of value was cheap diamond rings. You could trade one for a handgun, a couple of bags of groceries, even a motorcycle. He said they were even better than krugerrands. Something about how people trusted someone whose trading a family ring more then some profiteer.

I know comparing corporations to psychopaths is kind of unfair to psychopaths. Most psychopaths can see themselves farther into the future then the end of the quarter.

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Puzzle #912
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I shouldn’t have fallen for the trap but I was hungry :)

I found Shotcut very easy to use.

Interestingly, The Tragedy of the Commons really does work with psychopaths, so once you move from a person to person level to corporations interacting the Tragedy of the Commons problem becomes a serious issue. Take a minimum wage, it necessary for the population as a whole to have surplus wealth to spend to keep an economy going. Individual companies, on the other hand, have an incentive to pay their own employees a pittance. If every company does that then there’s no surplus wealth for people to purchase most goods and slowly the economy grinds to a halt. Hence it’s in society’s best interest to have a healthy and large minimum wage (or better yet a UBI system) which will have to be enforced on companies by an outside force.

So British tourists, collecting for their museum?

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I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 3rd 2025 (Tricky), in less than 11 minutes
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REUNION December 3, 2025

I solved it in 2️⃣1️⃣ moves! ⭐ ⭐ 🦊 🦔 🎉

Death’s Door - I’m not going to lie I’m old. 3d platformers, hell any platformers that require quick reflexes and precise controls aren’t normally my bag, but this funky little crow is so much fun to play as, I don’t mind the difficulty. (Which I have to admit isn’t that hard I just suck)

“Down at the end of lonely street …”

[Bracket City] December 2, 2025 🟡 (Medium)

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

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Nope you’re not crazy … well at least not about this, you might be stark raving loony but the Hook DVD did have a game: Hook DVD Review - BBC

Thank you so much! Seriously, that’s awesome explanation and I feal like one of the lucky 10,000 today. Are you a teacher? Because if you are your students lucky. If not I’m lucky.

Those are I’m fairly sure, words. But for the life of me, your so far outside my area I’m completely lost. Can you explain it to me like I’m a clever twelve year old?

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 1st 2025 (Easy), in less than 12 minutes
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You kind of understand where he was coming from.

Absolutely! The short sighted idiocy of this really points out the corporate thinking only about the next Q. This would get maybe a month before the economic crash

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 24th 2025 (Easy), in less than 9 minutes
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I should have known if I see a group of five it’s not that at all