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The strange economics of setting your own cash on fire

Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things [Unofficia… June 3, 2026
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In The Armchair Economist , Steven Landsburg makes the case that burning your own money is a form of philanthropy. Destroy a banknote, he argues, and "all surviving money slightly increases in value," so everyone else gains wealth in proportion to what they already hold. — Read the rest

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