Good evening,
Subject: Re: A real lesson in economics!
The economics lesson
It takes place in a village that lives off tourism, except that because of the crisis, there are no more tourists.
Everyone borrows from everyone to survive.
Several miserable months pass. Finally, a tourist arrives and takes a room.
He pays her with a $100 bill.
No sooner had the tourist gone up to his room than the hotelier rushed to take the bill to the butcher, who happened to owe him exactly one hundred dollars. The butcher immediately took the same bill to the farmer who supplied him with meat.
In turn, the peasant hurries to pay his debt to the whore to whom he owes a few rounds.
The whore closes the loop by going to the hotel to reimburse the hotelier, whom she had stopped paying when she used to book hourly rooms. As she places the $100 bill on the counter, the tourist, who had come to tell the hotelier that he did not like his room and no longer wanted it, picks up her bill and disappears.
Nothing has been spent, won, or lost. Still, no one in the village has any debts anymore.
Isn't that how we are resolving the global crisis?
Good evening
Marylena