• Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 年前

    This map is somewhay misleading, some countries use currency without decimals, making their currency worth effectively less. Take for example the euro, a cent (a one hundredth of an euro) is cerntainly worth less than a robux while an euro isn’t. The same comparison with the japanese yen (efectively a cent) shows that robux is more valuable. The map should be how many robux can you buy with the minimum wage for example.

    • M500@lemmy.ml
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      Yeah this doesn’t make any sense. In fact by their logic it’s wrong. A robuck is worth more than a US penny.

      I’m guessing they’re basing it on the smallest paper denomination, but that still doesn’t really make much sense to do.

      • Devorlon@lemmy.zip
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        It wouldn’t be the smallest paper denomination, IIRC the Euro and Pound don’t have single notes in circulation anymore.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeBanned from community
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        The US does not use the penny as their currency, they use the dollar. A penny is a fraction of a dollar.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeBanned from community
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      Because the EU doesn’t use the cent, they use the Euro. A cent is a fraction of a euro.

      The Yen is like that because they had hyperinflation for a while.

      This comment really doesn’t make sense.

      • smollittlefrog@lemdro.id
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        The point of the comment is to point out the common misconception that the value of one [token of a currency] has anything to do with the strength of a currency. As described in the comment, the value of a singular token of a currency can be chosen arbitrarily.

        This, of course, doesn’t mean the map is factually incorrect.

        • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          This, I don’t think the map is incorrect, for me it would be more interesting to compare people’s wealth than the arbitrary value of a token

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          But the value of a unit of currency being unrelated to the currency’s strength had nothing to do with whether that currency has cents or not. That comment just used the wrong explanation to make a correct point.

          Also the map isn’t entirely useless, because what it does illustrate is currencies which likely suffered from high or hyper-inflation in the past (or are very old). Obviously, no government first issues a currency and says “… and so one loaf of bread is 10000 schmeckles”. That’s just impractical.

          Of course this doesn’t mean that then Japanese Yen is a bad currency, but it does make for an interesting historical point.

    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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      Because this map uses the nominal currency, obviously.

      Cents are not the nominal currency of Europe; euros are the nominal currency, and cents are a fraction of that nominal currency.

  • jabberati@social.anoxinon.de
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    In the game I will create this afternoon, a JAB can be bought and sold for 1.25 USD, making it the more powerful currency than the US dollar.