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Make it out of rice paper or something. While the spendthrift government churns the stuff out on one end, it'll be ending up as pocket lint in the real world.
You could also put some kind of goop in it that causes bundles of it to bind together after a while like that dish of hard candy at your grandma's
house.
Forget about getting the stuff around in wheelbarrows. By the time you get it to the store to buy that loaf of bread you've been saving up for it'll be so much congealed sludge.
The government could explain that they're doing it to be ironic or as some kind of protest against it's citizens for not paying enough taxes.
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[-] banks would still have to exchange it for fresh bills, so all this would do is make people unhappy and encourage private companies to start paying employees in Euros. |
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A better solution would be to create enough economic growth that inflation is not an issue. |
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If the material for coins could change to butter, maybe the money in your pocket could be used to make laminated dough. |
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// The government could explain that they're doing it to be ironic
In a world run by the halfbakery members, that kind of press release would probably be issued a lot. |
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Money form isn't the problem. The problem is
attaching a fair valid price to anything. |
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// cheaper than toilet paper, in effect // |
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There would be the additional vicarious amusement of smearing excrement on an image of that squalid little bandit Mugabe. |
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This idea has effectively been Baked; during the Weimar republic, in occupied france, 1970's Bolivia and a few other places; bogroll-thin notes of huge denominations. These situations invariably end badly. |
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No need to skimp on the paper, people all over the world clamor for dollars. They fill up their reserves with it. The demand is infinite, so forget about cars and computers, this is the only export we need. |
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It seems a waste of money (time? effort? resources?) to print money that will just fall apart. Why not just stop printing money? |
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I wish you'd taken my Economics 101 lectures. You're pretty good at explanations. |
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Indeed. Just don't but anything from him, like the Eiffel Tower or the Brooklyn Bridge .... |
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Oooh, buy-one-get-one-free ? Excellent ! Tell us more. Do you want us to send you a downpayment or anything ? |
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I think the Italians tried this idea, judging by the lira I got when I visited there in the 1980s. |
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Would you prefer Western Union or MoneyGram ? Or would it be easier if we just sent the full payment in advance in used notes (nothing larger than a $20, non-sequential serial numbers) to a Post Office Box in Lagos ? We are totally reassured by your promise of escrow, this is completely unnecessary and a waste of time and money. You are obviously a genuine and trustworthy vendor. We will put our Post Office savings book, an Enduring Right of Attorney, and all our other financial details in with the cash, if that's all right with you. Oh, and we'll put some blank sheets of headed paper with our signature on the bottom, to speed up the process. |
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When can we expect delivery ? |
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* some assembly required. |
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