• toynbee@lemmy.world
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      12 minutes ago

      The teacher’s argument was that if you took seven pencils away from five pencils, you’d have negative two pencils, but negative pencils aren’t a thing.

      You could try making the same argument to your bank, replacing “pencils” with your local currency.

      Let me know how it goes!