“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar” - Henry David Thoreau
Last time I was in the USA the currency was the US Dollar. Perhaps someone should have explained that simple fact to this Maryland resident…
PS Unrelated thought - they’ll have Obama’s head on future dollars won’t they? If there is space after all the zeroes…
PPS Not that cash-transactions will be legal then. But they’ll still do those nice framed sets to hang on your wall.
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paraphrased from Lord Vetinari
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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Not an issue, people are free to take anything they wish instead of cash, if offered. It is just that if cash (legal tender) is all that’s offered they can’t, in law, turn it down.
Yeah,
But I thought it amusingly daft in the circs and I’m sure the management had a policy as to what they’d take. How would you assay the dope anyhows?
How would you assay the dope anyhows?
Phish Phish,
hold
long luxurious exhale,
Yep that seems pretty good weed to me!
We Libertarians had best get used to barter, they are trying to remove the hard currency as fast as they can.
Soon we will not be able to buy anything without a card that reports back our every move to a central database.
There have been schemes in my neck of the woods (Chard and Gloucester) for an alternative currency scheme. People swap talents for credits that they can then swap with other people for their talents or produce.
The Govt dont like it one bit, but there’s not a lot they can do about it.
Would Obama’s ears fit on the currency?
True, in commercial law you can pay with anything. And you can write a cheque on anything too.
But not on a manhole cover or anything made of metal. That violates the Coinage Act.
Barter schemes spring up whenever economic troubles rise, but especially when prices aren’t stable. But it never lasts, because it only works between people who regularly buy off each other.
Back in the 1970s I recall a feature on a barter scheme in Newcastle or somewhere.
The flaw was highlighted at the end: a deep-sea diver joined up. Nobody needed his services, or at least they wouldn’t swap a rpomise of a deepsea dive for anything he wanted.
Time barter’s different.
Jct: When barter people link the local currency to the Time Standard of money too, 6 Greenpounds/hour in UK, 60 Greenfranks/hour in France, 20 GreenMarks/Hour in Germany, $12 Greendollars/Hour in Canada, $10 Greendollars per Ithaca Hour in the U.S., time-credits earned locally can be intertraded with other timebanks globally!
In 1999, I paid for 39/40 nights in Europe with an IOU for a night back in Canada worth 5 Hours.
U.N. Millennium Declaration UNILETS Resolution C6 to governments is for a time-based currency to restructure the global financial architecture.
See my kingofthepaupers youtube channel
Bartercard seems to work pretty well but then its an Australian organisation. Here in damp Bournemouth I can use my Bartercard to buy practically anything and from anywhere in the world.