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History would disagree with you. You need an easy-to-carry, hard-to-replicate and non-spoiling unit of exchange. You also cant sell 1/7th of a cow for a new sho
by Brotkrumen 11y ago
History would disagree with you. You need an easy-to-carry, hard-to-replicate and non-spoiling unit of exchange. You also cant sell 1/7th of a cow for a new shoe.
Read "the gift" if you are interested. Barter is much rarer than adam smith thought and serious commerce was never based on it.
- aianus 11y ago> easy-to-carry, hard-to-replicate and non-spoiling unit of exchange Wouldn't ammunition check those boxes and be intrinsically useful as well? Would also help defend the gold :)
- Brotkrumen 11y agoProbably. Iirc ammunition was actually used in america at some point. Cigarettes could also fit the bill as prisons, depressions and concentration camps suggest. There would probably a few currencies and exchange rates floating around. One of which would be gold.
- giancarlostoro 11y agoWhat happens when you get mugged for your gold though? You're going to throw gold ingots at people? I'm curious really, I guess you need a right balance of self-defense gear and currency...