The Onion, that often-hilarious, sometimes profoundly satirical newspaper, has finally
published a piece of inspired parody that speaks to the real problem plaguing the global economy. Money, it has revealed, is only scraps of printed paper. Its worth is imaginary, and the more there is of it, the harder it is to imagine it is worth anything at all.
It's also hard to imagine a world without it, unfortunately. As the Onion's article concludes:
"It's back to basics for me," Bernard Polk of Waverly, OH said. "I'm
going to till the soil for my own sustenance and get anything else I
need by bartering. If I want milk, I'll pay for it in tomatoes. If need
a new hoe, I'll pay for it in lettuce."
When asked, hypothetically, how he would pay for complicated life-saving surgery for a loved one, Polk seemed uncertain.
"That's a lot of vegetables, isn't it?" he said.
