>>510326055>the 4 men, episode 2I should add the bank (man 2) now has a net worth of 9.5k but it's all illiquid.
He doesn't really have money, but he has "capital" and man 1 is his investor whom man 2 owes.
The irony is that man 1 can come and demand his money from man 2 and in the event man 4 cannot be roused, man 2 will be obligated to pay man 1 back or else be branded a fraud and perhaps punished as a thief.
So lets say man 1 wants to retire and live off his "$20,500 net worth" and man 4 doesn't show up and kill him.
Man 2 doesn't actually have any cash, he has $9,500 of "investments" which are actually all in man 1's workshop.
So if man 1 goes to man 2 and asks.
>hey can I have my 20,500 dollars?Man 2 will go to man 1's workshop, sell all the "investments" for $4000 (perhaps with the help of man 1 and it's the best they can do) and give man 2 the $4000.
Man 1 will be shocked and say
>"But I could have had 20,000 if I didn't use a bank!And man 2 will reply
>economy is bad this year, too bad so sad! That is, if man 2 was polite and didn't declare bankruptcy or skip town.
>so where did all the money go?That's the question really,
9,500 went to investments so the tool makers.
500 went to man 1 (the worker)
10,000 went to the pedo, .
The worker thinks they have 20,500,
The banker knows they have 9,500,
And the pedo has -$10,000
You sum it up it's all there, but at the end, we can only find $4,500 for Man 1, the only lawful and respectable man in this wretched story.
How has this happened?
The moral of the story is that if you want to make money you sell sex toys to pedos I guess, very depressing story desu.