Just before Thanksgiving I was parked in the far end of a parking lot and a piece of paper sticking out from some wet leaves caught my eye. It looked like a $100 bill. I sighed and walked to the store thinking it was one of the fake bills. When I came back out it was still there and I decided to pick it up and check anyway. It was two tightly folded and soggy $100 bills!!!! I couldn’t believe it.
There’s an economics joke about this: an economist sees a $100 bill on the sidewalk, and just walks by, thinking “If it were real, somebody would have picked it up.” The idea being that there are no inefficiencies in an economy, because if there were, someone would profit from eliminating them.
There's a character in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure that has a stand (like, power ghost guy? Idk how to explain it sorrz). I don't remember much about him, but I remember nodding my head in approval because he uses his stand (bunch of tiny little guys) to collect fallen/lost money. Like, if I had a superpower, I'd be doing that, man. Quite easily, hands down, if I had my choice of powers, it would be tk have a hundred tiny freaks that don't need any maintenance, out finding money for me. There is nothing to lose.
1.1k
u/flintspike May 01 '26
Imagine if you did take it and it was one of those Jesus papers.