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18 AUG 2001
Funny money goals and growth
Jokes only take us so far. Look at all the funnies that are thrown out with yesterday's paper.

For funny money to survive we need to invent a thousand things to do with it -- games to play, things to bet on, treasure hunts, trading, advertising, phone messages, random acts of kindness, rumors and hoaxes and lies.

Then funny money can spread throughout the world and make everybody rich or make everybody laugh.

All the best ideas on the future of funny money go into our inventory, with a price tag, what we think they're worth. Then the total in any particular group is what the group thinks, and the ideas with the highest investment can be pursued.

So we're not just collecting jokes. We're building an ongoing game economy, and deciding where it's going.
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