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margueritem
said, 6 months ago
That thought has occurred to me also.
Linux0s said, 6 months ago
Better a scarce rock than a paper with some number on it.
jeffc42
said, 5 months ago
You could use leaves as the Golgafrinchams did. But inflation was a bit of a problem.
bpullin said, 5 months ago
If we were back on the gold standard now, Obama and his Commie co-horts wouldn’t be able to spend us into oblivion.
Comics Lover said, 5 months ago
Holy Christ have any of you even taken a whiff of an Economics class?
Chris Kenworthy said, 5 months ago
Using an easy to find rock would be the dumbest yet. Strip-mine your way into hyperinflation!
blackash said, 5 months ago
In today’s age we don’t even have paper money. We have electronic bookkeeping entries. To have value a currency must have some degree of scarcity or nobody would except it in an exchange. Money that is not based on a commodity risks being devalued by governments and banks.
Teresa said, 5 months ago
The value of the US’s paper money is only the opinion that it has value. It’s not based on the gold standard anymore.
The only money we have that actually has any value is the change, the metal coins tha t jingle-jangle-jingle.
Doctor Toon
said, 5 months ago
A number of people apparently live under rocks, and yet they are able to use the internet to post political comments on these message boards
Must be an awful lot of those rocks, maybe we could use those for money
Omnius said, 5 months ago
Only morons want rocks instead of real money that is quantified and has an agreed upon value. So stupid they try to accumulate gold for some apocalypse without realizing how difficult it will be to establish a true value
Tacopielvr said, 5 months ago
@bpullin
Take an economics class and stop being a ignorant troll.
Michael wme said, 5 months ago
For most of the world’s history, the world economy was based on gold. All international debt had to be in gold, since creditors feared debtor nation would devalue their currency and debtor nations feared creditor nations would revalue their currency upward.
After WWII, every US dollar was worth approximately 1 gram of 24K gold (except to US citizens, so there would be enough for international debts). Gold must be assayed (cf Achimedes, ‘Eureka, eureka!’), which costs a lot, and transporting gold is expensive, so the US dollar, being absolutely equivalent to gold, became the international currency.
Then, in 1971, Nixon instituted the greatest international sovereign debt default in the history of international trade. The dollar was just a piece of paper. And this strip is from ‘89, long after the world econony had stopped using gold.
Having the currency of a single nation as the global currency is totally unacceptable to most nations (other than the single key currency nation), so the Europeans tried to establish an alternative, a currency controlled by an international central bank. The world had long been waiting such a currency, and we’ve seen how happy everyone is now that the Euro is finally here, and how it has solved the problems associated with the US dollar.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago
There are other minerals more expensive than gold. Iridium, gallium arsenide, chromium and platinum to name a few.
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 5 months ago
@Michael wme
Thought you were dead serious right up until you said how great the Euro is.
Kylie2112 said, 5 months ago
Of course, gold doesn’t really have much intrinsic value aside from being shiny and really good for electrical connections. The only issue with basing the value of your currency on ANYTHING because you say the basis has value is pretty much the same thing as just saying “This dollar is worth this much.”
Of course, we can’t have a pure “this for that” economy, so having an artificially derived basis for money is just as good as having an artificially derived basis for money.