First of all a very personal story: as a child I found a cigar box full of money. Not just millions but billions ! With friends we rolled "cigarettes" out of it. That's how I puffed away billions as a child !
Perhaps this experience led to the fact that I had trouble as an adult to take paper money really seriously. Somehow I kept remembering the billions that went up in smoke.
The current inflation rate is disturbingly high. Savings, already badly battered by the zero interest policy, are now melting like butter in the sun ! One must convert the values into numbers to understand what is going on. What was 100 000 euros a year ago, is now 90 000 ! 10 000 euros have dissolved into nothing !

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