>Supreme Chancellor: Remember your early history lessons, Anon. "All who hold wealth fear losing it." Even the bankers.Anon Skywalker: But the bankers used their wealth for stability!>Supreme Chancellor: Stability is a point of view, Anakin.The Weimar Republic and its bankers were similar to speculators in almost every way, including their obsession with holding onto wealth.Anon Skywalker: The speculators hoarded for their own gain.They thought inwards, only about themselves.>Supreme Chancellor: And the bankers didn’t?Anon Skywalker: The bankers were selfless! They only cared about saving the economy!>Supreme Chancellor: [smirking, slightly exasperated] Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Weimar The Broke?Anon Skywalker: No.>Supreme Chancellor: I thought not. It’s not a story the economists would tell you.It’s a financial legend. Weimar Germany was a republic so broke and so desperate, it could print money faster than the Hutts run a galactic casino. They began to focus on identity politics such as immigration and LGBTQ, They were too busy partying away the wealth created from the strong Prussian workforce and military, they bacame hedonistic, well past the point of even roman debauchery. Even after the treaty of Versailles stripped their country of wealth, they partied and printed. They had such faith in their Papiermark, they thought they could keep the economy alive... without silver or gold.Anon Skywalker: They could actually... run an economy without silver?>Supreme Chancellor: The Dark Side of fiat currency is a pathway to many happenings some consider to be...unnatural.Anon Skywalker: Wh-What happened to them?>Supreme Chancellor: They became reckless...the only thing they feared was running out of ink. Unfortunately, they printed so many Papiermarks to pay off war debts and reparations, a loaf of bread ended up costing a trillion marks.Ironic.They were all millionaires but could not buy themselves out of financial ruin.
>>519420457Darth Stoltenberg the Wise sought to revive Angmar through hedging all the world, and thus bringing all the canons under the rule of One. And through the accumulative returns he would rule them all, without selling a single stock. But when everyone is superrich, nobody is. And such was how Angmar Atreides fell again into the trap of success, by letting themselves become Emperor.
