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== [[Fridge Brilliance]] ==
* Scrooge McDuck's money bin. As a kid, I had a vague idea that you shouldn't store all of your money as pennies and store it in a single building for the sole purpose of swimming through it. As I got older and learned about real-world economics it made even less sense. And then I thought: Scrooge knows about this. He is so [[Fiction 500|freakin' rich he can afford to keep his funds liquid]] and inefficiently stored like that.
** Oh my... those funds are 'liquid'. As in 'the usual contents of a swimming pool'. I've just this minute got that.
* I came to a different but similar conclusion... everyone tends to have loose change that they likely keep in a piggy bank or in a jar. Scrooge McDuck is so rich that he needs AN ENTIRE BUILDING to hold his loose change! The fact he can swim in it is just a plus. -Game Guru GG
** This have given rise to my own little [[Fridge Brilliance]]: that's why, no matter how it might be just a drop in the bucket of his vast wealth, he guards it with such voracity. [http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/1952/pooroldman/07.html It's the money he's made with his sweat and hard work; it means more to him than all the wealth in the world]. Friggin' sweet!
* There's a more practical reason for Scrooge's moneybin. Scrooge is so ridiculously rich that if he actually spent or invested all his money, he would destroy the world economy with a lethal level of inflation! By keeping so much of his money in his money bin and out of circulation, he avoids global economic devastation. At the same time, whenever he feels like shocking someone with a little fiscal "dragon awe", he has immediate access to his gazillions.
** "Coins are only valuable when they're rare... and Scrooge McDuck is the one who makes 'em rare!" (Don Rosa, "The Money Pit")
*** You're 40 years late. The original quote "And I'm the guy that makes 'em scarce!" comes from "Money Pit"s predecessor, the 1951 Carl Barks comic "The Trouble With Dimes". He's also the guy who thought of a money bin in the first place, back in '51.
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