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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' has a gas station where the price of regular gasoline is somewhere in the $4500 range. Premium fuel was [[AndNinetyNineCents $8000.99]] per gallon. (Then again, this may have been more due to the lack of oil. The shock of the price is still jarring to those who do not know about the oil shortage of the past). The intro to ''Fallout 1'' also shows an ad for a car advertised as being fully analog, with no computers, and costing "just" $199,999.99.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
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** ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' has a gas station where the price of regular gasoline is somewhere in the $4500 range. Premium fuel was [[AndNinetyNineCents $8000.99]] per gallon. (Then again, this may have been more due to the lack of oil. The shock of the price is still jarring to those who do not know about the oil shortage of the past). The intro to ''Fallout 1'' also shows an ad for a car advertised as being fully analog, with no computers, and costing "just" $199,999.99.
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* Downplayed in ''The Growing Pains of'' ''Literature/AdrianMole''. When Queenie Baxter dies, nobody can afford the cheapest possible funeral for her, costing £350; and her funeral insurance is only worth £30, because she had taken it out fifty years previously, when £30 would buy a far more extravagant funeral.
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* In his ''Literature/Timeline191'' -- stories in the CSA that just lost UsefulNotes/WorldWarI -- he shows one character complaining about the ridiculous inflation that just started. Beer is now a dime rather than a nickel. Of course, showing the economic spiral, the beer prices do go up and up -- things start getting really bad when the beer gets to a dollar... then ten, then a hundred... It eventually reaches the point where Hitler Expy says "Bet you a million dollars" during a speech, then takes a million-dollar bill out of his pocket and throws it away.

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* In his ''Literature/Timeline191'' -- stories in the CSA that just lost UsefulNotes/WorldWarI -- he shows one character complaining about the ridiculous inflation that just started. Beer is now a dime rather than a nickel. Of course, showing the economic spiral, the beer prices do go up and up -- things start getting really bad when the beer gets to a dollar... then ten, then a hundred... It eventually reaches the point where a Hitler Expy says "Bet you a million dollars" during a speech, then takes a million-dollar bill out of his pocket and throws it away.



* ''Literature/TheFourHorsemenUniverse'': As shown in ''Winged Hussars'', prices in spaceport cities on Earth are insane compared to elsewhere on the planet, with a night in a seedy motel costing the equivalent of several months' rent on the rest of the planet. {{Justified}} because Galactic Union credits, which are usable in port cities, are ridiculously overvalued compared to indigenous Earth currency: major PrivateMilitaryContractors in particular command fees and operating budgets equivalent to the GDP of entire Earth nation-states.

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* ''Literature/TheFourHorsemenUniverse'': As shown in ''Winged Hussars'', prices in spaceport cities on Earth are insane compared to elsewhere on the planet, with a night in a seedy motel costing the equivalent of several months' rent on the rest of the planet. {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} because Galactic Union credits, which are usable in port cities, are ridiculously overvalued compared to indigenous Earth currency: major PrivateMilitaryContractors in particular command fees and operating budgets equivalent to the GDP of entire Earth nation-states.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Futurama'' largely averts this with most things in the 31st century costing around what they did at the time the show was made. Notably the episode "Three hundred Big Boys" may even count as a FailedFutureForecast as it portrays a rebate of $300 as a decent amount of money and coffee at $3 a cup. Both true in the early 2000's not so much 20 years later...

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* ''WesternAnimation/Futurama'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' largely averts this with most things in the 31st century costing around what they did at the time the show was made. Notably the episode "Three hundred Big Boys" may even count as a FailedFutureForecast as it portrays a rebate of $300 as a decent amount of money and coffee at $3 a cup. Both true in the early 2000's not so much 20 years later...
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* ''WesternAnimation/Futurama'' largely averts this with most things in the 31st century costing around what they did at the time the show was made. Notably the episode "Three hundred Big Boys" may even count as a FailedFutureForecast as it portrays a rebate of $300 as a decent amount of money and coffee at $3 a cup. Both true in the early 2000's not so much 20 years later...
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Second, governments can sometimes simply revalue their currency when the numbers get too unwieldy, by creating "new" dollars or whatever, worth 1,000 or whatever of the old dollars. Except that governments usually leave that to the central banks. This revaluing is usually only for hyperinflation -- they don't do much about "normal" inflation. For example, they aren't going to change things so that the newspaper in the 1980s that cost 40 cents and now costs $1.50 costs 40 cents again -- ditto that 20-cent bag of candy that now costs about $2. Likely, though, when numbers become ridiculously high for a chocolate bar, new currencies will arise and we'll gradually shift to their use for sake of convenience, with the older currencies likely kept in record (so that they're still valuable).

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Second, governments can sometimes simply revalue their currency when the numbers get too unwieldy, by creating "new" dollars or whatever, currency units, worth 1,000 or whatever of the old dollars.units. Except that governments usually leave that to the central banks. This revaluing is usually only for hyperinflation -- they don't do much about "normal" inflation. For example, they aren't going to change things so that the newspaper in the 1980s that cost 40 cents and now costs $1.50 costs 40 cents again -- ditto that 20-cent bag of candy that now costs about $2. Likely, though, when numbers become ridiculously high for a chocolate bar, new currencies will arise and we'll gradually shift to their use for sake of convenience, with the older currencies likely kept in record (so that they're still valuable).
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** One episode has a parody of the (then) modern Russian economy with an instance of Ridiculous ''Present'' Inflation, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYD9xu92zSg a Russian dignitary at the Olympics committee]]:
--->'''Russian:''' I recommend Moscow, where the American dollar buys 7 rubles. ''[gets paged on his beeper, and reads out the message, sounding increasingly panicked]'' 12 rubles. ''60 rubles''. '''''1000 RUBLES!?''''' ''I must go''. ''[frantically leaves the conference hall]''

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** One episode "The Old Man And The C-Student" has a parody of the (then) modern Russian economy with an instance of Ridiculous ''Present'' Inflation, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYD9xu92zSg a Russian dignitary at the Olympics committee]]:
--->'''Russian:''' I recommend Moscow, where the American dollar buys 7 rubles. ''[gets (''gets paged on his beeper, and reads out the message, sounding increasingly panicked]'' panicked'') 12 rubles. ''60 rubles''. '''''1000 RUBLES!?''''' ''I must go''. ''[frantically (''frantically leaves the conference hall]''hall'')



** Also an inversion: in an episode set in the ''Literature/HuckleberryFinn'' era, Tom and Huck are shocked that a couple days worth of supplies cost 2 cents followed by a shot of a 99-cent store which sold such items as grand pianos.

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** Also an inversion: in an episode set Inverted in the ''Literature/HuckleberryFinn'' era, "Simpsons Tall Tales"'s retelling of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer''. Tom Sawyer (Bart) and Huck Huckleberry Finn (Nelson) are shocked that a couple days worth of supplies cost 2 cents followed by a shot of a 99-cent store which sold such items as grand pianos.
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* In ''Warlords of the 21st Century'' a.k.a ''Battletruck'', the opening scene features an abandoned petrol/gas station with a faded sign reading, "GAS FOR LESS - ONLY $59.99 A LITRE - WHILE IT LASTS". Justified in that the film takes place in a Film/MadMax-style dystopia where [[TerminallyDependentSociety dire oil shortages]] have led to the collapse of civil society.

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* In ''Warlords of the 21st Century'' a.k.a ''Battletruck'', ''Film/{{Battletruck}}'', the opening scene features an abandoned petrol/gas station with a faded sign reading, "GAS FOR LESS - ONLY $59.99 A LITRE - WHILE IT LASTS". Justified in that the film takes place in a Film/MadMax-style dystopia where [[TerminallyDependentSociety dire oil shortages]] have led to the collapse of civil society.

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