OH, god, this is incredibly stupid. This is not the way to fix the economy. The primary real value of money is that it reduces friction in trade so you don't have to jump through multiple complicated hoops to trade, say, your coding skills for a steak dinner. You trade your coding skills for money and then take money to the restaurant instead of going to the steak dinner maker and asking what he wants and then finding someone who will give you that in exchange for coding.

Money symbolizes value. Other than lubricating trade, which has real value, in itself, it doesn't really "do" anything. You can't eat it. You can't build a house out of it. If burning it to keep warm makes some kind of economic sense, then the economy is seriously fubarred.

This kind of financial manipulation does not fix any of the underlying issues that lead to financial problems. Financial problems grow out of real problems. I can testify to that first hand: I am deeply in debt and homeless due to medical problems, in essence. I am fixing my medical problems. As my medical problems resolve, my expenses come down and my productivity goes up. My debts are slowly being paid down.

We need to fix real problems, underlying root cause problems. This kind of superficial manipulation is not a fix.

Oh, god, no. I can't believe I am seeing this stupidity being taken seriously.