Given anne’s proclivity for monumental mistakes I’ll give you that she may just succeed, but to take down our economy with fake money, Anne would need to make herself a trillionaire and literally bury their town in a pile of 100 dollar bills.
A few things:
1: If there’s one store in the entire country with methods in place to catch fake magic cash… it’s very likely to be the magical goods supply shop.
2: Magicking up fake money runs the risk of stumbling into any one of the many methods the US government had created over the last couple hundred years to catch counterfeiting. Right off the top of my head, the unique serial numbers on each bill.
3. A better, safer method, might be some sort of “summon lost currency” spell. Someone’s dad lost a ten-spot down the couch cushions once, where it’s lived for the last decade? Have that magically appear in your hand. Rather, better to have an enchanted jar that casts the “summon lost money” spell repeatedly over time, gradually filling itself up. There’ll be a lot of loose change, but Once in a while, dump it out and check to see if you found any 100 year old pennies that are worth a bunch. This all assumes such a made-to-order magic spell CAN be created. Clearly there’s some flexibility in her magical style (observable in their potential to go wrong, if nothing else) but there are also fixed spells she’s been studying.
4. This one I keep ready in my back pocket for if I ever find an Arabian lamp, or Belldandy-chan pops out of my bathroom mirror; plotted it out carefully over years and cleared it with a licenced financial advisor to make sure it wouldn’t blow up in my face.
If you get a free wish (or probability altering magical spell) choose to win a lottery jackpot. Here’s why this is the best option:
a) “One and done!” Presuming it’s one of the larger jackpots, that’s probably all the money you’ll ever need again. (Go find that financial advisor guy to make SURE you’ll never need more money again. 4 out of 5 people who win the lottery are right back where they started inside of 2 years, not due to luck, but just poor financial education. You don’t need to be a financial expert yourself, but it’s certainly worth it to hire one!)
b) “No monkey paw surprises!”: The lottery winnings are all documented, and legally yours, free and clear after taxes at least. No risk of a pile of gold disappearing from Fort Nox and ending up in your living room, or a mobster’s safe suddenly emptying out and appearing under your bed.
c) “No need to feel guilty!” The money isn’t being taken from anyone. Lottery jackpots main source of funds is people buying tickets for the lottery, and they are only spending what they can afford to give up (and if they’re not being that sane/responsible, that’s very much on them). Even if there was another lottery winner “destined” to win it, you’ll only be splitting the jackpot with them, not taking it away from them. The amount of life-changing difference it makes to win $200M isn’t actually that drastically different from winning $100M. Life should be pretty comfortable for both of you!
Given anne’s proclivity for monumental mistakes I’ll give you that she may just succeed, but to take down our economy with fake money, Anne would need to make herself a trillionaire and literally bury their town in a pile of 100 dollar bills.
Koff koff, inflation, koff koff
Rather than magicking up cash, she could magic up something to sell.
A few things:
1: If there’s one store in the entire country with methods in place to catch fake magic cash… it’s very likely to be the magical goods supply shop.
2: Magicking up fake money runs the risk of stumbling into any one of the many methods the US government had created over the last couple hundred years to catch counterfeiting. Right off the top of my head, the unique serial numbers on each bill.
3. A better, safer method, might be some sort of “summon lost currency” spell. Someone’s dad lost a ten-spot down the couch cushions once, where it’s lived for the last decade? Have that magically appear in your hand. Rather, better to have an enchanted jar that casts the “summon lost money” spell repeatedly over time, gradually filling itself up. There’ll be a lot of loose change, but Once in a while, dump it out and check to see if you found any 100 year old pennies that are worth a bunch. This all assumes such a made-to-order magic spell CAN be created. Clearly there’s some flexibility in her magical style (observable in their potential to go wrong, if nothing else) but there are also fixed spells she’s been studying.
4. This one I keep ready in my back pocket for if I ever find an Arabian lamp, or Belldandy-chan pops out of my bathroom mirror; plotted it out carefully over years and cleared it with a licenced financial advisor to make sure it wouldn’t blow up in my face.
If you get a free wish (or probability altering magical spell) choose to win a lottery jackpot. Here’s why this is the best option:
a) “One and done!” Presuming it’s one of the larger jackpots, that’s probably all the money you’ll ever need again. (Go find that financial advisor guy to make SURE you’ll never need more money again. 4 out of 5 people who win the lottery are right back where they started inside of 2 years, not due to luck, but just poor financial education. You don’t need to be a financial expert yourself, but it’s certainly worth it to hire one!)
b) “No monkey paw surprises!”: The lottery winnings are all documented, and legally yours, free and clear after taxes at least. No risk of a pile of gold disappearing from Fort Nox and ending up in your living room, or a mobster’s safe suddenly emptying out and appearing under your bed.
c) “No need to feel guilty!” The money isn’t being taken from anyone. Lottery jackpots main source of funds is people buying tickets for the lottery, and they are only spending what they can afford to give up (and if they’re not being that sane/responsible, that’s very much on them). Even if there was another lottery winner “destined” to win it, you’ll only be splitting the jackpot with them, not taking it away from them. The amount of life-changing difference it makes to win $200M isn’t actually that drastically different from winning $100M. Life should be pretty comfortable for both of you!