African Democracy is the Best Democracy

[Scot Dutchy]

You're forgetting all the corruption, you can just pay off the taxman. EIsh.

Yes, I keep on forgetting about it.

depends on how many taxmen you have to pay off, and whether the amount of bribe makes the operation profitable from being regular

Not just the taxman. If it was that simple.

[rainbow]

You're forgetting all the corruption, you can just pay off the taxman. EIsh.

Yes, I keep on forgetting about it.

depends on how many taxmen you have to pay off, and whether the amount of bribe makes the operation profitable from being regular

Not just the taxman. If it was that simple.

...says the expert who's never been to Africa.

[Scot Dutchy]

You're forgetting all the corruption, you can just pay off the taxman. EIsh.

Yes, I keep on forgetting about it.

depends on how many taxmen you have to pay off, and whether the amount of bribe makes the operation profitable from being regular

Not just the taxman. If it was that simple.

...says the expert who's never been to Africa.

Says the guy that claims to be a millionaire...

[Svartalf]

I bet am a millionnaire too, in zimbabwean dollars

[Scot Dutchy]

I bet am a millionnaire too, in zimbabwean dollars

Everybody is a millionaire on the internet. Poor rainbow does not quite comprehend what that means.

[laklak]

I'm a millionaire in Emalangeni. Multi, even.

[Hermit]

Everyone was a multi-billionaire during some of the Weimar period in Germany.

You could maybe buy half a dozen eggs with this 20,000,000,000,000 Mark banknote when it was released on 5 Feb 1924. In the morning anyway. Later in the day you'd be lucky to get 2 eggs for the same piece of paper.

[Scot Dutchy]

It cost more to print them that they just used rubber stamps.

[Scot Dutchy]

We dont use the term billion but miljard here.

[pErvinalia]

Who gives a fuck what you call it? No one cares about the Dutch language.

[Hermit]

It cost more to print them that they just used rubber stamps.

At the peak of the hyperinfaltionary period there wasn't enough time to print new notes from scratch. They'd be out of date by the time they would have been brought into circulation, so existing ones were just converted by printing new values over the top of old ones. Not rubber stamped, though.

Example:

We dont use the term billion but miljard here.

Names of large numbers
Two naming scales have been used in English and other European languages since the early modern era – the long and short scales. Most English variants use the short scale today, but the long scale remains dominant in many non-English-speaking areas, including continental Europe and Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America. These naming procedures are based on taking the number n occurring in 103n+3 (short scale) or 106n (long scale) and concatenating Latin roots for its units, tens, and hundreds place, together with the suffix -illion.

A billion is a number with two distinct definitions:

1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in all English dialects.[1][2]
1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the long scale. This is one thousand times larger than the short scale billion, and this number is now normally referred to as one trillion. This is the historical meaning in English (with the exception of the United States), and was still in official use in British English until some time after World War II. It is still in use in many non-English-speaking countries where billion and trillion 1018 (ten to the eighteenth power) or equivalent words maintain their long scale definitions.

American English adopted the short scale definition from the French (it enjoyed usage in France at the time, alongside the long-scale definition).[3] The United Kingdom used the long scale billion until 1974, when the government officially switched to the short scale, but since the 1950s the short scale had already been increasingly used in technical writing and journalism. [4]

Other countries use the word billion (or words cognate to it) to denote either the long scale or short scale billion. (For details, see Long and short scales § Current usage.)

Milliard, another term for one thousand million, is extremely rare in English, but words similar to it are very common in other European languages.[5][6] For example, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew (Asia), Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Ukrainian and Uzbek — use milliard (or a related word) for the short scale billion, and billion (or a related word) for the long scale billion. Thus for these languages billion is thousand times larger than the modern English billion.

[rainbow]

I'm a millionaire in Emalangeni. Multi, even.

Meh, It is linked to the Sowf Effriken Ront.

Buys plenty Swazi gold, though.

What's the going rate for intsangu now?

[laklak]

E100 gets me a baggie full, probably a bit over an ounce. Lasts maybe a month.

A friend has started to produce oil for vape, going to try that when I get back.

You can choose to get Rands or Emalangeni from the ATMs at Standard Bank. Nedbank only gives out Emalangeni. And Swazibank - Eish, forget it, the machine, she is broken.