Hello dear IT people!
Stop picking your nose, take a course in economics instead. From the course, you will learn about the most important economic concepts, as a result of which you will become smart, smart. And if you answer the questions correctly, your parents will buy you ice cream and take you to the zoo.
1 challenge
In a faraway kingdom, a faraway state, a grandfather grew a turnip, and a hen, Ryaba, laid eggs.
Grandfather wanted scrambled eggs and asked the hen Ryaba:
- Do you want to exchange? You give me eggs, and I give you a turnip.
βI like to peck a turnip,β Ryaba the hen answers.
We agreed to exchange 4 eggs for 1 turnip.
Questions for backfill:
a) How many eggs, at an agreed rate, does 1 turnip cost?
b) How many turnips does 1 egg cost?
Right answers:
a) 4 eggs.
b) 0,25 turnips.
2 challenge
Hen Ryaba wanted to peck on turnips, and she was too lazy to lay eggs that day. How to be?
Grandpa says:
- Ship the turnip on credit, please.
Grandpa replies:
- Yes, you, pockmarked, you will forget that you took a loan, and then you will not give back the eggs.
No, I won't forget. Here's a feather for you. Show me tomorrow, and I'll pay you back for a feather.
"Okay," the grandfather agreed.
I shipped a turnip to the hen Ryaba, and in exchange I took a feather.
The next day, grandfather returned the feather to the hen Ryaba, and in return he received the promised eggs.
Questions for backfill:
a) How much did the feather cost before the start of this operation?
b) How much did the feather cost after the operation began, but before it was completed?
c) How much does the feather cost after the operation is completed?
Right answers:
a) It didn't cost a damn thing.
b) 1 turnip or 4 eggs.
c) It's not worth a damn.
3 challenge
Grandfather wanted to get dog hair for the treatment of sciatica. The bug in exchange for a turnip agrees to give wool as much as necessary. Yes, that's the trouble: the turnip grown by grandfather is given to the hen Ryaba in exchange for a feather.
Then grandfather says to Zhuchka:
- And you take a feather. Tomorrow you will give it to Ryaba the hen, and in return you will receive eggs.
The bug gladly agreed and allowed the grandfather to kick dog hair out of himself.
The grandfather cured the ensuing sciatica and thinks:
βTo know that magical power is concentrated in chicken feathers, since anything can be purchased on them.β
Questions for backfill:
a) Why did the grandfather think so?
Right answers:
a) The old man has completely lost his mind.
4 challenge
Ryaba the hen realized something and said:
- And let's evaluate all the products in feathers!
Grandfather scratched his turnip and answered:
- Why not? What's the difference in what to evaluate if the proportions of the exchange are set?!
And the Beetle barked something in agreement.
So the products produced on the farm began to be evaluated in chicken feathers.
Questions for backfill:
a) Is Grandfather right that, given the invariance of the proportions of exchange, it does not matter in what way the products are valued?
b) Why did the hen Ryaba need to evaluate products in feathers?
Right answers:
a) Right.
b) The hen was not a fool at all. She looked into the distance.
5 challenge
Now the products began not to be exchanged one for another, but to be sold and bought for chicken feathers.
If the grandfather needed eggs, he paid the hen Ryaba 1 feather and received 4 eggs for it.
If the hen Ryaba needed a turnip, she paid the grandfather 1 feather and received 1 turnip for the feather.
Questions for backfill:
a) What is the difference between buying and selling and borrowing discussed earlier?
b) How many feathers were in circulation before, when borrowed?
c) How many feathers were in circulation from now on, when buying and selling?
Right answers:
a) In the fact that when buying and selling feathers are not withdrawn from circulation after the completion of the transaction, as in lending.
b) Equal to the amount of debts. When a debt arose, the number of feathers in circulation increased; when the debt was paid off, it decreased.
c) An arbitrary amount put into circulation by the chicken Pockmarked.
6 challenge
Soon the hen Ryaba realized that there was no need for her to rush. Why, if itβs easier to pull feathers out of the tail and pay with them ?!
Then she thought again and decided to still rush, but not with simple eggs, but with golden ones, to decorate the chicken coop.
As I decided, so I did.
Questions for backfill:
a) Is it possible to say that after the chicken Ryaba stopped laying simple eggs, she became a parasite?
b) Why decorate the chicken coop with golden eggs?
Right answers:
a) Not possible, but necessary.
b) Hen Ryaba went crazy on the basis of enrichment.
7 challenge
Once a grandmother tried to pay for groceries with a sparrow feather.
β Yes you what?! - the hen Ryaba immediately began to cackle. - You can't do that, you shouldn't! You need to peck out your eyes for this!
The grandfather was dumbfounded by the clucking of the chicken and said to the grandmother:
- You, the old one, that ... Do not annoy the bird once again, it has been somehow preoccupied lately, it rushes at people with its fists.
βOkay, I wonβt,β Grandma replies.
Since then, no one even stuttered about paying for food with sparrow feathers.
Questions for backfill:
a) What is the difference between a sparrow feather and a chicken feather?
b) Why did Ryaba the hen get so excited?
Right answers:
a) Nothing.
b) If the grandmother begins to pay for food with sparrow feathers, she will be able to retire. Who then will produce products so that Ryaba the hen will exchange them for her feathers?!
8 challenge
The chicken Ryaba wanted to peck all the time, and there were almost no feathers left in the tail. Then the hen Ryaba said to the mouse:
- You're kind of skinny. You don't eat enough, do you?
βI donβt eat,β admitted the mouse.
βTake three feathers, eat well and work with renewed vigor. And in a week you will return four feathers. Good for you and good for me.
The mouse scratched its hollow belly and agreed.
From that day on, Ryaba the hen stopped pulling the feathers out of her tail, and began to give out on credit, at interest.
Questions for backfill:
a) Did the mouse win or lose because it borrowed 3 feathers from the hen Ryaba?
b) How much did the mouse win or lose?
Right answers:
a) lost.
b) 1 feather.
9 challenge
Once a grandfather and grandmother looked into the chicken coop and gasped at the myriad of golden eggs laid by the hen Ryaba.
Grandfather wanted to take the golden eggs, but the hen Ryaba did not allow it.
- Where did you put your hands? My golden eggs are worth feathers! she cackled.
Grandpa and grandma didnβt have extra feathers, they all went for food. Therefore, they did not touch the golden eggs of Ryaba the hen.
Just in case, the chicken Ryaba hired a bug to guard the chicken coop from uninvited visitors. By that time, Ryaba's hen had so many feathers that she could afford it.
Questions for backfill:
a) Was the old man able to treat his sciatica after the Bug got hired to guard the chicken coop?
Right answers:
a) I couldn't. The bug stopped giving wool to grandfather, because now she received feathers from Ryaba's hen.
10 challenge
Grandfather thought about why he grows turnips all day long, but he doesnβt get more feathers, while the hen Ryaba doesnβt carry normal eggs, and the chicken coop is all in gold and several bags of feathers are stacked in the corner.
The hen Ryaba noticed the grandfather's thoughtfulness and said to him:
- Something you don't like? Okay, let's get rid of the feathers. Let's write down on a piece of paper who has how many feathers.
So they did.
Now, with each sale and purchase, a certain amount of feathers was deducted from the buyer's account, and added to the seller's account. But all the same, the grandfather did not become richer, while the hen Ryaba became obscenely rich.
Questions for backfill:
a) Why didnβt grandfather get rich from the removal of feathers from circulation?
b) Why did Ryaba the hen need to withdraw feathers from circulation?
Right answers:
a) What difference does it make to exchange cash feathers or write down the available amount on a piece of paper ?! What's on the forehead, what's on the forehead.
b) Now the chicken Ryaba could not pull feathers out of her tail, and not earn feathers by lending them at interest, but simply enter the required number of them on her piece of paper.
11 challenge
In the end, the grandfather became so emaciated that he began to openly express dissatisfaction with sciatica.
- So sciatica tortured or my feathers stopped liking?! - Ryaba the hen clucked under the vicious yapping of the Bug. - Okay, have it your way. I propose to completely abandon chicken feathers, and instead introduce cryptocoins.
- Do you think it's worth it? the grandfather asked his granddaughter.
- You cho, old man, you donβt smell at all ?! - the granddaughter shook her pigtails enthusiastically. β Cryptocurrencies are the coolest thing that can be, the latest squeak of modern technologies. They are based on the blockchain!
Dedka didnβt know what a blockchain was, so he agreed to cryptocurrencies.
Chicken Ryaba bought equipment and started mining cryptocoins. And the grandfather did not have enough feathers to buy mining equipment with them, he had to grow turnips in the garden again.
Questions for backfill:
a) What is the difference between writing feathers on paper and crypto coins?
b) What education did your granddaughter have?
c) Why did the granddaughter advise her grandparents to agree to cryptocurrencies?
Right answers:
a) The fact that you can familiarize yourself with the record on a piece of paper, but you wonβt know the number of cryptocoins in Ryabaβs chicken.
b) IT.
c) A juvenile fool because. She confused the technical realization of the means of exchange with their economic essence.
12 challenge
Grandpa is tired of this mess. He took a knotted stick and, for a start, beat the Beetle off properly. Then he went into the chicken coop and twisted the Ryaba hen's neck. And what do you order to do if the chicken does not lay eggs, but all sorts of nonsense ?!
Grandfather cooked chicken soup from Ryaba's chicken and fed his family with it. Here the fairy tale ends, and who read to the end can get an MBA diploma.
Questions for backfill:
a) Did the grandfather do the right thing?
b) Who will lay the eggs now?
c) What does an MBA diploma have to do with it?
d) What did grandfather do with the golden eggs?
Right answers:
a) Correct. Chicken soup is delicious, can't you starve?!
b) Nobody. Will have to get a new chicken, probably.
c) Nothing.
d) I bought mining equipment on them.
Source: habr.com