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I don’t disagree that it’s wrong, but I had no difficulty understanding the sentence so I don’t care. The correction is just a distraction.

CileTheSane,
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I do? But I also support laws that heavily tax owning secondary properties. Building more houses is not helpful if they just get purchased by landlords.

CileTheSane,
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Utility is irrelevant to the statement “an infinite number of $1 bills is worth the same amount as an infinite number of $100 bills.”

CileTheSane,
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What is worth?

Dollar value.

Would you rather have 500 1s or 5 100s?

Don’t care. They both get deposited at my bank the same.

You already said you’d take the 100s, why?

An acknowledgement to the point you were making that was a digression from the discussion at hand. My mistake apparently.

I would take the 100s because I personally value the convenience of 100s more than the 1s, so to me, a single 100 is worth more than 100 1s.

I personally would not accept a Genie wish for either as the mass would create a black hole that would destroy the universe. There is no “practical consideration” when dealing with infinities. Knowing how to work with infinities is useful for complex mathematics, but there is no real world application until you simplify away the infinities.

Worth doesn’t need to imply the monetary value of the money.

It very much does imply the monetary value of the money. It can mean other things if you want to define it as such, but you need to before hand in such a case. It was not defined differently by OP.

CileTheSane,
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But the utility is not the issue in the premise.

“Would you rather have an infinite number of $1 or $100 bills?” Obviously $100 bills, but they are worth the same amount.

CileTheSane,
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I see I made a mistake by acknowledging your argument, and trying to indicate my understanding there of, before trying to get back to the point at hand that an infinite number of $1 bills is worth the same amount as an infinite number of $100 bills.

I won’t make the same mistake again.

CileTheSane,
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It’s not feigned ignorance it’s the fact that any tangible investment will upset SOMEONE.

Stocks, Bonds, Index Funds, 401k. Go talk to an advisor.

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I guess you can’t steal anything when you just decide to limit the definition of the word.

I guess you can steal anything when you expand the definition of the word to anything you want.

You live on the internet, it would take you 5 seconds to link to the “actual definition” you are using if the word was actually used that way.

CileTheSane,
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You don’t have to peak under or knock, just try to open it. If it doesn’t open don’t bang or rattle it just walk away.

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