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Agree! I edited this sentence so it would be a question, which better reflects what I actually intended to write.
by cs702 8y ago
Agree! I edited this sentence so it would be a question, which better reflects what I actually intended to write.
- wyldfire 8y agoTen years down, millennia to go.
- shabda 8y agoNO currency has survived a millennia. Almost all currencies backed only by their governments, and not by physical gold, are at most a century old.
- pmiller2 8y agoNot true. The pound sterling has been in continuous use since around 800 CE.
- thechao 8y agoThat's a ship-of-Theseus fallacy. The pound sterling of 2019 is more related to the American dollar of 2019 than it is to the pound sterling of even WWII, nonetheless 800CE.
- rpz 8y agoAnd additionally the American dollar is not the same as it was pre bretton woods, or pre federal reserve, etc.
- zajd 8y agoThe ship of Theseus isn't a fallacy, it's a thought experiment.
- pmiller2 8y agoNot really. It’s just a matter of changing times and prices. Pounds and pennies have been a thing for 1200 years. What they buy has changed dramatically.
- Rmilb 8y agoAnd lost 99% of its value!
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- cs702 8y agoCountries and currencies cease to exist regularly. Here's an incomplete list of countries that have disappeared in recent history: https://www.thoughtco.com/missing-countries-1435425 https://www.thoughtco.com/missing-countries-1435425