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"It all worked great for a while, until one day they found they had too few pieces of scrip. Every couple had only a couple hours left and, having so little, th
by garply 17y ago
"It all worked great for a while, until one day they found they had too few pieces of scrip. Every couple had only a couple hours left and, having so little, they didn’t want to waste it."
Wait... where did the old pieces of scrip go?
- potatolicious 17y agoMr. and Mrs. Jones from down the street were saving them all in the hopes of getting rid of the kids for good?
- philk 17y agoHe's getting the story a bit wrong. One or two of the couples will have a whole lot more scrip than the others that they've saved up.
- jbert 17y agoSome possibilities: Some are lost (you need to print money to replace torn/lost bills). Some people join the group without new scrip being added (money supply needs to grow with population). Some people de-facto left the group (kids grew up/they moved away) while holding scrip (people stuffed cash into their mattresses and forgot about it/died).