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0 pointsteawrecks5y ago0 comments

They don't have to line up perfectly for there to be a cycle and thus some minimum amount of debt everyone has that's not real. Someone in the loop might think they owe $1000 and actually owe $900, while someone else thinks they owe $100 but actually owes nothing.

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tshaddox5y ago

I'm not sure what you mean. Assuming that everyone knows all of their own debts and credits, then they already know their net balance. In the riddle, everyone already knows their net balance is 0, so I would question why everyone is so pessimistic about the future unless the terms of their debts are less favorable than the terms of the credit they've given out.

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