A Billion Dollars For Bread

Zimbabwe was once a country with a currency of their own.

Currency that experienced hyperinflation prior to the boom (and bust) of America’s housing market.

The term hyperinflation can be explained with a single banknote:

This author rememberers splitting a box of bills with his cousins. Bills worth over hundreds of trillions in Zimbabwean dollars.

The box couldn’t be traded for a loaf of bread.

It’s led this author to a heuristic about money:

It’s fragile.

The story of the Zimbabwean dollar proves a simple saying:

Money comes and goes.

You can spend all your time collecting money in a box, only for it to be worth dust, unable to buy bread.

At the end of the day, money is only good for buying bread.

Bread can mean many things. It could be time, freedom, or food.

Don’t spend time chasing money to get bread. Spend money for time to chase bread.

Like the Zimbabwean dollar, it’s too fragile a sacrifice.

get the bread instead.