Certainly, but either way, and no matter the currency, more money is more money. And this carries weight in a given trade.

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That’s not always true. Let me give a real world example.

Oil.

Every year the world consumes 36bn barrels of crude oil. This is approx 1 cubic mile of oil.

If the world produces 37bn barrels of oil (3% too much) the oil price is $40. The value of the cube is $1.5 trillion.

If the world produces 35bn barrels of oil (3% shortfall) the oil price is $110. The value of the cube is $3.85 trillion.

The smaller cube is worth a lot more than the larger cube.

This is why we have wars.

Interesting, but I’m not sure oil = user generated content holds in this case.