Posted on 07/22/2015 10:10:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The people there probably learned math better than most Americans ever learn math, considering the calculations they had to do to buy a loaf of bread.
>>The people there probably learned math better than most Americans ever learn math, considering the calculations they had to do to buy a loaf of bread.
Especially considering that, with 500 billion percent inflation, by the time they finished the calculations, the price had changed.
Yea, I was thinking the same - compound interest, compounding inflation. Not to mention scheduling and prioritization. The moment you receive money you have to SPEND IT, or its value drops in half, overnight - so which store first, how do you get to each one efficiently.
Lots of skills that people are very much lacking in, in this country.
That’s what the get when “black lives matter” and white ones don’t. Hopefully Obama will move there and become their “dear leader” and can make matters even worse for them.
I wish them the worst. They deserve it.
molebuck LOL. awesome. Ya know, they recently added an extra digit of precision to the mole. There was an FR article about it.
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