"You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Well your money's in Joe's house. That's right next to yours and in the Kennedy house and Mrs Melan's house and... and a hundred others."
Yup. Even decades later the system is the same. If I went to my local bank to withdrawal all my money, it's extremely unlikely they'd have enough to cover it unless it was a prominent bank in a fairly large urban center. And that's just one person. Hell, most banks don't have liquid assets to cover all their customers cash if they all start pulling it out.
As soon a they said that this scene popped into my head. I've seen this movie hundreds of times. It's my dad's favorite. He'll watch it any time of year.
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u/ByrdmanRanger 4h ago
"You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Well your money's in Joe's house. That's right next to yours and in the Kennedy house and Mrs Melan's house and... and a hundred others."
-George Bailey