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GUFN
That part is true. The position being that there is to much money being exchanged that is untaxed. Think of all the ‘cash’ transactions that go unreported. Not saying I agree, but that’s the drift.
OK so...she pulled out her phone and proudly showed me the designs for the new US digital currency. Which she swore were 100% accurate and final.
Except the site she used was Behance (a site for commercial artists to showcase their portfolios) and the 'final designs' were from a student art project.
I gently pointed this out, but you can guess how that went.
The one tiny kernel of "truth" in her rabbit-hole story was that, under Nixon, the US began the process of leaving the gold standard. Which some, at the time, equated to the global monetary system collapsing. 50 years later, here we are.
My main problem, though, is that I even attempt to process these things rationally. When someone comes out with the 'super secret fact' that we're invading Canada tomorrow -- I mean you just can't reason with someone like that.
I did offer to hold all her paper money for her, since it was now worthless...