In 1990, N was 14, there was a very steep inflation, and individual commerce was finally legal. N sold potatoes and newspapers outside of subway stations but how to preserve the earnings when there’s no banking system and hyperinflation is raging?
N bought a bunch of bottles of port with his earnings and hid them in his room. They never lost value, and because he was 14, he had no temptation to drink them.
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