Money is a claim on things other people value. You can’t destroy value purely by doing something with your claim on that value.
Except the degenerate case of “making yourself or onlookers sad by engaging in self-destructive behaviors where you destroy your claim on resources”, I guess. But it’s not really an operation purely with money.
Hmm, I guess you can make something’s success conditional on your having money (e. g., a startup backed by your investments), and then deliberately destroy your money, dooming the thing. But that’s a very specific situation and it isn’t really purely about the money either; it’s pretty similar to “buy a thing and destroy it”. Closest you can get, I think?
(Man, I hope this is just a concept-refinement exercise and I’m not giving someone advice on how to do economics terrorism.)
Money is a claim on things other people value. You can’t destroy value purely by doing something with your claim on that value.
Except the degenerate case of “making yourself or onlookers sad by engaging in self-destructive behaviors where you destroy your claim on resources”, I guess. But it’s not really an operation purely with money.
Hmm, I guess you can make something’s success conditional on your having money (e. g., a startup backed by your investments), and then deliberately destroy your money, dooming the thing. But that’s a very specific situation and it isn’t really purely about the money either; it’s pretty similar to “buy a thing and destroy it”. Closest you can get, I think?
(Man, I hope this is just a concept-refinement exercise and I’m not giving someone advice on how to do economics terrorism.)