Give me a roll of toilet paper, and I can move the earth

A friend of mine wrote in an article that his friend who was in Zimbabwe told him that the country was in inflation and the price of a bottle of Coca Cola rose to three million. He came up with a fantastic idea that really captured my attention. All we need is just a roll of toilet paper and a machine which can make toilet paper. Then we should go to Zimbabwe and sell this roll of toilet paper. Because of the inflation, we could get a large amount of money. How to deal with the money? We can turn some of it into rolls of toilet paper. Sell them and get more money. Repeat this and we will gain a lot of fortune in a short time without any cost. Well, this process will not last long, because a lot of paper money has been changed into toilet paper and our raw material is exhausted. Because of us and our toilet paper, the amount of paper money in circulation becomes smaller. It leads to the positive change of the money still in circulation. We become rich and the problem of inflation has been solved. The roll of toilet paper saves the economy of a whole country.
Of course, this is just a joke and a trick as well. Because the amount of money has not been changed, no matter what we sell, when it comes to the market, it makes no difference. The inflation still exists. Well, what interested me is the idea. Can we solve inflation problems with only a roll of toilet paper and rescue the economy of a whole country? It is a brave thought. At the same time, it shows the ambition of a person. What is more, it also makes me think about our attitudes towards new ideas.
Since we started to learn, we began to get a kind of so called normal education. The older we got, the more academic and less imaginative we became. We tend to consider too many things and in the process, lose many great ideas which seem to lack academic foundation. Let’s go back to the idea I mentioned above. Many people have read this article and there are also many comments. Some of them think it is ridiculous, just because it does not obey the academic foundation. Why should we always be that academic? Why not just be a little bit crazy? Many great thoughts were regarded crazy at the beginning, but later they proved to be quite useful and important. Copernicus and his heliocentric theory is a good example. Heliocentric theory was considered as a fallacy when the idea was initially introduced, but centuries have passed, and we realize that it is a constant truth. Copernicus who used to be treated as a lunatic became one of the greatest scientist ever since. Sometimes, what seems crazy is actually creativity.
At last, I want to say although this idea I mentioned may be wrong, but it did make me think a lot, not only about the idea itself, but also about our attitudes towards new ideas. Give me a roll of toilet paper, and I can move the earth.