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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:52:31 GMT
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- From: Dunstan_Vavasour <dunstan@GEC-EPL.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: why gold
- Comments: To: politics@ohstvma.acs.ohio-state.edu
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- Val:
- >It is interesting that Caius considers titanium as a new standard for "solid
- >currency," I myself once offered the idea that the "new economy" of the future
- >might be an energy-based economy. "Ergs (= "A centimeter-gram-second" unit of
- >energy ...") or calories might be the new standard, or maybe even
- > "foot-pounds."Again, we, as a total species planet-wide, have to agree on such
- > a standard -
- [rest of messages deleted]
- Why not base the currency on the whole productive base of a country -
- one could then pass tokens which represent some proportion of that
- productive base. Of course, keeping the supply of tokens in line with
- the productive base might be quite difficult - if too many tokens were
- supplied their value relative to goods and services might fall ... oh
- hang on, that's what we do now isn't it.
-
- Dunstan.
-
- BTW, if I was to take up the Bank of England on their statement "I
- promise to pay Bearer on demand the sum of five pounds", what would
- they give me ?
-