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"textContent": "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 \n\nThe post The strange economics of setting your own cash on fire appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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