# writing off wonton destruction of cash

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 10, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-off-wonton-destruction-of-cash/637313 "2012-10-10T15:02:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-off-wonton-destruction-of-cash/637313/21 "2012-10-11T05:36:41Z")

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If the money was dropped into the Mariana trench prior to March of this year, it could’ve been retrieved by director James Cameron. [Cite](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17503395)

[According to wikipedia, there will be more chances:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench)  
As of February 2012, at least three other teams are planning piloted submarines to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench. These include: Triton Submarines, a Florida based company that designs and manufactures private submarines, for which a crew of three will take 120 minutes to reach the seabed; Virgin Oceanic, sponsored by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, designed by Graham Hawkes, and piloted by Chris Welsh, for which the solo pilot will take 140 minutes to reach the seabed; and DOER Marine, a marine technology company, based in San Francisco and set up in 1992, for which a crew of two or three will take 90 minutes to reach the seabed.

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-off-wonton-destruction-of-cash/637313/22 "2012-10-11T15:00:12Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> I continue to insist that the base confusion is that people think that printing actual “money” is meaningful. It’s a leftover from the fiat money mindset. It’s upsetting that money is representational and can be created from thin air.

Interesting. Your conclusion, and the thread itself, makes me realize the parameters of the fateful history of the damnation of “usury,” “bankers,” and “stockbrokers,” they being the purest representations of the essential monetary principle.

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> But any alternative is boob-bookkeeping, valuable solely because it contains five consecutive pairs of double letters.

😃 Before your post, was this a well-kept secret discovery only known by accountants?

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**Author:** ![Stormcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-off-wonton-destruction-of-cash/637313/23 "2012-10-11T15:10:37Z")

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> [@Buck\_Godot](#):
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> Wanton.
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> **Grumble Grumble stupid spell check not saving me from stupid homophones Grumble Grumble**

You can’t stop the puns - it’s hunan nature.

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