Reporting that 10 rupees recently reached me. I understand that's about $0.10 in my currency. Never before in my life have I seen a ruppee. The rupee joke was taken from stereotypes in donald duck comics I read as a child in the 80s and 90s (many other classic american slave boss tropes are from euro comics like donald duck from last century, before we got more understanding of others).
> slave boss jumped down on the interns celebrating a network router in
> the break room
>
> slave boss [kicking shit]: “what??? you’re saying our … adversary’s …
> firewall .. entire project … was leaked?”
>
> slave boss has army boots on an intern’s throat, and is trying to read
> a technical memo through blurry vision and outdated lexicons
slave boss calls dictatoropia on phone
slave boss: “dictator of dictatortopia my good friend! I have your
entire firewall project. It’s mine. I took it. If you pay me 12 sacks
of rupees, then I’ll use the excited interns who want to reverse
engineer your security services as punching bags for my irritation,
preventing them from outing your secrets using exotic skills nobody
understands”
phone [dictator of dictatortopia]: “slave boss, you have me by the ears here …