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another example of this phenomenon are "free" markets in prisons, where the currency is usually cigarettes. Other places where freedom is limited have similar
by miki123211 2y ago
another example of this phenomenon are "free" markets in prisons, where the currency is usually cigarettes.
Other places where freedom is limited have similar characteristics, I remember that we had a sort of food market when I was a child at a boarding school.
- 0x3444ac53 2y agoFun fact, I had a family member in prison and apparently they used postal stamps as currency
- mananaysiempre 2y agoAs a side note, France has a thing called “fiscal stamps” (timbres fiscales) which I had to use to pay a ~60€ government fee of some sort. One time I did it I paid online and got an A4 thing I needed to print out, which, OK, sure. The other time I couldn’t do that for reasons I don’t remember and paid cash at a store to get one. What I got was a tiny thing that looks exatly like a small postage stamp of the standard almost-square shape (which is itself funny because all the actual French postage stamps I used were twice as large) except it cost the aforementioned ~60€. Needless to say, I was terrified I’d lose it the whole hour or so before I handed it over to a clerk. Wikipedia tells me this was a common approach once[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_stamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_stamp