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2025-05-27 06:05:53 UTC

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However, as to be expected every now and then, an unexpected disaster happened.
A very bad storm blew through Unexpected Land, damaging buildings and destroying many people’s homes. https://blossom.primal.net/3d487fc2250143146813d1b5bb7c6e048c7e7d3032e83bf508bac8bf7e97264b.png

2025-05-27 06:05:26 UTC

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As expected, everything gradually got better in Unexpected Land.
People were happier and worked harder as they were able to consistantly build their wealth.
Businesses and technology grew as this new wealth wasn’t wasted on unproductive uses.
Families stayed together and had more children as everyone could afford a nice home.
And everyone could afford a nice home because homes were simply places where you kept your children’s piggy bank and not the piggy bank itself. https://blossom.primal.net/be723d952bf5110412b068679218399bfd4c168d4306910ff7abbaacc086d94c.png

2025-05-27 06:04:34 UTC

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“How is this possible?” asked Mr. Unexpected.
“It is not only possible,” replied the wizard, “it is to be expected!”
“Please, please, can you make my country an Expected Land as well?!” begged Mr. Unexpected.
“Certainly. If you like, I can wave my wand and put your land on a sound money standard, but…” then the wizard unexpectedly paused for a moment and slyly grinned to himself…
“I will also give you a Big Red Button that allows you to print money again — just in case you want to.”
“I don’t expect that I would ever want to press that!” Mr. Unexpected chuckled nervously.
“Indeed, I don’t expect you would,” the wizard smirked knowingly, before waving his wand and magically transporting Mr. Unexpected back to his homeland. https://blossom.primal.net/6a7d9f3bf10bfcae415bee5fd64b6ba7a76de158dd8ebb2edf2cfa8810780774.png

2025-05-27 06:03:07 UTC

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“Not at all” interrupted the Wizard.
Mr. Unexpected hadn’t expected the wizard to interrupt him. He usually expected people to listen to his pronouncements as if they were profound truths rather than baseless waffle.
“Come, I will show you what a land built on hard money and personal responsibility is actually like.”

2025-05-27 06:02:51 UTC

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“You have reached Expected Land,” replied the wizard.
“In this land, people don’t expect the government to create money out of thin air.
In this land, people expect that money has a fixed, expected supply.
In this land, people don’t expect the government to give them money. In fact, they expect to be responsible for their own money.
In this land, people don’t expect the government to take more money from them every year. In fact, they expect to keep more of their own money — because they worked hard for it.”
“Pffft” scoffed Mr Unexpected “I expect this land is a dreadful place to live. I expect everyone is poor and no one works because they can simply hoard their money instead of investing it. I expect there is also lots of crime as the government can’t simply print money to give to poor and old people, I expect that…” https://blossom.primal.net/553fc57c173f92b07ebd90683448a63ea3b22c744b4c2d05a14a76a8dfa77b05.png

2025-05-27 06:02:11 UTC

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But Mr. Unexpected did expect a magical wizard to suddenly appear in front of him. You see, the thing about Mr. Unexpected is that he often expects things which are completely unlikely to happen.
For instance, one time he expected that saying the words “the economy will grow” would magically make it happen.
Of course, it didn’t. But that doesn’t stop Mr. Unexpected from expecting the impossible.
However, in this instance, the magical thing that Mr. Unexpected expected did happen — and a wizard appeared.
“Ah, Mr. Unexpected, I’ve been expecting you,” said the wizard.
“Where am I?” asked Mr. Unexpected. https://blossom.primal.net/f0833500a390c8bd7013b3c8f3bb9b563e4043338b4515b2f730a7ed6696eb78.png

2025-05-27 06:01:29 UTC

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One sunny day, Mr. Unexpected unexpectedly felt like going for a walk to think about why so many unexpected things kept happening.
He walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked.
Unexpectedly, he found himself in a new land far away from where he had started — which surprised Mr. Unexpected, as he didn’t know that walking for days could have that effect. https://blossom.primal.net/01d6ad15f91ca782c53ba880fa49615d47bc4fd21c66eb1c4b079ffd631df7e3.png

2025-05-27 06:00:54 UTC

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Mr Unexpected thought he could cheer the people up by printing money so everyone could afford a house.
Mr Unexpected didn’t expect that this simply made houses much more expensive so the only people who could now afford a house were the people who already had one. https://blossom.primal.net/6301e7fa09f4e8410e963a865452e86779cf28f1f159bc43c22dabf9e9372245.png

2025-05-27 06:00:20 UTC

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Mr. Unexpected also did not expect that the few remaining people he hadn’t paid not to work would become very, very angry when he asked them to give him the money they earned from doing all the work he had paid the other people not to do.
Mr. Unexpected expected that those people would instead be very happy that he had made the country a nicer, kinder place.
Silly Mr Unexpected! https://blossom.primal.net/2fe8b90d06f024435194ded76ce8ad9161bda3d099eb42f224daf6e9fa106a2f.png

2025-05-27 05:59:31 UTC

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Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect that borrowing lots of money to pay people not to work would cause the country to be massively in debt — while also reducing the number of people able to repay that debt.
Mr. Unexpected also didn’t expect that this would require him to get the country into even deeper debt to repay the existing debt he couldn’t pay back in the first place.
Mr. Unexpected expected that if the country was a nicer, kinder place, no one would really worry about the debt at all. https://blossom.primal.net/26a88ceff4fc1d73ce916429f0a33bbc8f7eb4ee57c217d5c749dd3968a269bf.png

2025-05-27 05:59:00 UTC

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This surprised Mr Unexpected, but Mr Unexpected is surprised by many things that are extremely unsurprising.
For instance, Mr. Unexpected expected that borrowing lots of money to pay people not to work would make Unexpected Land a nicer, kinder place. https://blossom.primal.net/35b7cf5480f0b76fdd113bf04665f7e63044cd37f1ed0d377662c8182c6ce092.png

2025-05-27 05:58:17 UTC

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For instance, Mr. Unexpected expected that printing trillions of pounds during the pandemic would prevent people from becoming poorer.
Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect that printing trillions of pounds during the pandemic would reduce the value of all the pounds that already existed — and so make everyone much, much poorer. https://blossom.primal.net/3f862fac24bd9b7b9c310bee40ecbc5e77371fea267a981f6a9086dc7f8fffbd.png

2023-04-14 19:04:36 UTC

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