On 18 Jan 2013 at 9:36, DEREK STANLEY wrote:
> I'm thinking in the case of free traders in the wilds you'd have to
> use some kind of hard gold standard currency. You'd have no way of
> backing up a paper/credit currency in the wilds.
For places like the wilds, it's all effectively barter anyway.
You trade a cargo of X and commidities Y & Z for a cargo of W & V,
and get commodituy U as the "change".
("commodities" in the above would be stuff like precious metals,
gems, and low volume/mass but valuable items that are useful or
recognized as valuable pretty much anywhere)
Heck, even in *normal* areas, that's the way free traders operate,
except that they use money for the "filler" instead of the
"commodities".
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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com
> I'm thinking in the case of free traders in the wilds you'd have to
> use some kind of hard gold standard currency. You'd have no way of
> backing up a paper/credit currency in the wilds.
For places like the wilds, it's all effectively barter anyway.
You trade a cargo of X and commidities Y & Z for a cargo of W & V,
and get commodituy U as the "change".
("commodities" in the above would be stuff like precious metals,
gems, and low volume/mass but valuable items that are useful or
recognized as valuable pretty much anywhere)
Heck, even in *normal* areas, that's the way free traders operate,
except that they use money for the "filler" instead of the
"commodities".
--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com