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Nah, the fakes are fairly obvious once you know what to look for. It doesn’t really matter so long as they circulate like other currency though. Money is weird

by pja 10y ago

Nah, the fakes are fairly obvious once you know what to look for. It doesn’t really matter so long as they circulate like other currency though. Money is weird.

nicky0 10y ago
You could call it an unofficial form of Quantitive Easing.
pjc50 10y ago
Somalia spent years accepting fakes as real, because there was no "real" government: http://jpkoning.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/bringing-back-somali-shilling.html http://jpkoning.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/bringing-back-somali-... (Price fell to roughly the cost of production)
OJFord 10y ago
> It doesn’t really matter so long as they circulate like other currency though. Except that it's all profit for the criminals counterfeiting them.
- ojr 10y ago
  it cost money to make money though so not all profit
  - OJFord 10y ago
    Sure. I don't see what that changes though - my point is that counterfeiting is profitable for the (criminal) counterfeiters, so it's not the case that it "doesn't really matter".