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26 NOV 2005
Funny money
Funny money follows the one rule of funny world: must be funny.

There's an old definition, that funny money is money we make ourselves out of nothing. We are happy to follow this tradition.

There's a new definition, that funny money is solidified laughter, and we create it to reward funny people for making us laugh.

We can write jokes on our money. We call these funnies. That makes it funny money for sure. It gives it value. People will take it for a laugh.

If we create our own spending money, we don't need to spend the funny money we receive from others. We have 100% savings rate, and the game is about accumulating wealth. We can copy the funnies we receive to make more money. Funny money is a much more abundant and profitable currency than the other stuff,

We accumulate the funnies that express what we want in our version of funny world. Not just jokes, but the roles and themes we prefer, funny ideas and projects, stories and description of what goes on in funny world.

This leads to the major early benefit of the game: social matching on sense of humor. When we get together we find which funnies, which parts of funny world we agree on. We find who we can play with.
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