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The 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.is)
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[–] lath@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Anyone remember which country had an inflation so bad, it issued trillion dollar bills useful only as toilet paper?

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 weeks ago

One sec, let me ask an AI about that

[–] jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hyperinflation in Germany after WW1? But I think there must be more examples.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wheelbarrows of cash will be needed to buy groceries if that happens

[–] nanlux_user@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

IIRC it was Zimbabwe?

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 2 weeks ago

They hadn't mastered the Argentinian custom of changing currency to remove zeros.

[–] e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

i wouldn’t mind wiping my ass with cheeto-face

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.