Print Money

The Government pulls another caper Soon your Dollar's toilet paper

Print Money is a political music video produced by JREG in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The song is about the government creation of money.

In the music video intro, JREG portrays himself as two characters themed after political compass positions simultaneously, a liberal right libertarian, and an authoritarian right "Social Darwinist" who both argue against the creation of money to solve problems. The alliance ends when the authoritarian right character realizes the conditions inflation creates resemble Weimar Germany, thus leading him to ask if they are printing enough money.

Can be watched on YouTube here.

• Artistic License Economics: Done for humorous effect, but the reasons and process of creating money is more complex then depicted.
• Central Theme: High inflation opens the door to more extreme Political Ideologies.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The color tone of the characters in the music video matches a common political compass, with the authoritarian right character being tinted blue and the liberal right character being tinted yellow.
• Commissar Cap: One is worn by the authoritarian right figure.
• The Con: What the song implies printing money is, going so far as to call it a government caper.
• The Government: The main character of the song represent the nebulous concept of a government, printing money to protect special interests at the cost of the citizenry.
• Kill the Poor: The initial argument against printing money by the authoritarian right character argues that for the benefit of the strong, the weak must be allowed to die.
• Product Placement: The end of the video features an ad for earbuds, which are worn during the earlier skit.
• Ridiculous Future Inflation: What the Liberal Right character is trying to avert at the start of the music video. The lyrics allude to this as well with the lines "Soon your Dollar’s toilet paper", and "Million dollars for a loaf of bread".
• The Social Darwinist: What the authoritarian right figure introduces himself as.
• Visual Pun: The patrons scroll across the screen during the video. As the money printer slows down, so too does the roll of patrons, and vice versa as it speeds up, as if to say the patron model is like the money printer of the creator.
• Those Wacky Nazis: What the authoritarian right character is all but stated to be, getting excited at the prospect of a weak economy like Weimar Germany, as well as his entire Product Placement bit.
• Why Didn't I Think of That?: Said verbatim during the song, when a character realizes they could have just printed money to fix a line going down.