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The idea is this: your wealth would be inversely propotional to the amount of the currency you have. Example:
Customer: Oooh, look at that shirt! I'll take it.
Shopkeep: Here is your shirt, and here is your money.
or
Banker: Good news! You've been approved for a $10,000 loan.
Borrower:
Great! Here's $10,000.
Each person at birth would start out with some positive quantity of money. Their parents would probably hold onto most of it for them until they grew old enough to support themselves.
The money would be a burden to carry in some way (maybe it's heavy, or radioactive, or something), and would be illegal/impossible to discard other than in a transaction.
Not a good idea, mind you, but kind of interesting, I thought.
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//Not a good idea// - you said it. |
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I thought this would be like, if something cost $4, you could give the cashier a $5 bill and a $-1 bill, and thus make your own change. |
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Look, [O-Jive], you have negative croissants! It must be working! |
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So...I would mail a check to my employer every two weeks? Creditors would accept money from me temporarily based on how much money I *don't* have? My financial devestments would lose money over time? And my goal in life would be to become independently impoverished? But if I find myself with too many people owing me money, I should declare bankruptcy? And the Treasury would come to my house and demand to know why I was *not* counterfeiting? |
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I prefer [phundug]'s version. |
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there is a definite halfbakery logic working here. |
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It's kinda like keeping score in golf, except golf makes sense. |
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I kinda had my heart set on -1 bills, too. Printed up in negative images. |
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So you could bury all your debt in the back garden? |
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O sure, get all technical and ruin it with the facts. |
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