Commodities

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commodities

Title text: Can we please have this? Please please please?

Votey

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Wo work w how scow the future came.

Where's my flying car?! Where's my martian outpost?! Wheres my pocket supercomputer witha longer bat tery life?

We recognized the flawed heart of the system.

Science is driven by human curiosity.

We can do better.

We set up a futures market for in-existent commodities I will pay a thousand dollars for a pound of t. Rex meat, to be delivered in five years./

The market boomed.

My goo. There are millions of t. Rex meat contracts nobody think it's deliverable.

If I could produce

A single medium-sized t. Rex, I'd get 60 billion dollars,

Major biotech firms became interested. Scientists! Cease making new boner pills!

Is it time to cure cancer?!

Why do people always ask that?

And the invisible hand of the market gave a great big middle finger to evoutionary history

To

Science!

Capitalism.

There was a brief panic, as buyers tried to renege on contracts.

Turns out I don't love the idea of paying a week's wages for a pound of

Lizard meat.

A brief panic.

Okay. I'll pay. Isn't it illegal to threaten people with dinosaur attack?

Show me where it says that in the constitution!

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I challenge all vegetarions to promise to cat dino-clones.

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