In Nosov's book the shares of the giant plant company sell splendidly, while the seeds sit the whole time in a rocket nobody has reached yet.
In “Dunno on the Moon,” Nikolai Nosov’s Soviet children’s novel, there is the Giant Plants Joint-Stock Company. The swindlers Miga and Zhulio sell the lunar little people shares backed by the seeds of giant plants that Dunno brought from Earth, and promise that every shareholder will get his share of the harvest. The shares sell beautifully, their price goes up, and meanwhile the seeds are lying in a rocket that nobody has yet managed to reach. Then the rich man Spruts, whose business the giant plants would spoil, bribes Miga and Zhulio, they run off with the shareholders’ money, and Dunno and his friend Kozlik have to flee the city. Nosov wrote this in the mid-sixties as a satire on capitalism. Sixty years later it reads like an instruction manual for issuing a stablecoin.
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The Dollar Nobody Has Seen — Nobody Owns Money | Mike Fluff
