Seeing it's not actual currency no law says she can't melt that down for the copper and sell that. Worth more by far, frankly, tissue paper full of snot has more value then anything Tea Party related.

It might be worth something someday to people who collect weird political memorabilia.

I'd expect that to be a prop in a movie whose entire premise is to make fun of the Tea Party movement, from the year 2278...entire centuries removed from whatever shitty consequences we would face with them gaining power. Probably written by Robot Mel Brooks.

It'd be like Terminator in my mind. "In a world... where idiots were voted into office by average Americans... There exists... no common sense or actual currency." It starts out with a dirty poor white kid that digs up a history textbook from 1997 and reads it. Then some weird power struggle with his parents and lots of lasers shooting right through people.

lol

I love copper and every alloy containing it.


Just saying.

Well I'm sure you can afford a lot of it.

Bronze bearings are some weird shit. They leak out this weird oil when they get hot.

Gold is easier to conceptualize than monetary policy and these fuckers are lazy.

And they long for a golden age of America that never existed.

This also applies to everything else teabaggers believe.

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Would you like the boring answer or the very boring answer?

It's shiny and you can see it.

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Give me the "Aside from the fact that it's GOLD!!! SWEET SWEET GOLD!!" boring answer that I can use whenever someone says the gold standard must be returned to.

Gold was useful because it didn't tarnish and could be melted down over and over without any loss of materials or value (aside from artistic/antique, perhaps).

Diamonds aren't all that rare, technically, and they can't be sub-divided into handy monetary amounts or combined to make larger units. Platinum required melting temps far too high for most of human civilization to master; I'm not sure how D&D claims it's done (maybe by magic, I guess). Uranium's value wasn't known about until recently, and I don't think I'd want to carry around a radioactive coin. Plus it decays over time.

There are any number of ways you can back a currency, but gold has quite a few problems in that its value can fluctuate wildly, it can't really be used to manage an economy's highs and lows the way a fiat currency can, and someone (or other countries) can screw with your monetary system by buying up or selling lots of gold. Plus, if things ever got as bad as the gold-nuts think they will, gold won't be the basic unit of exchange: Canned goods and bullets (traded or fired) will be.

Don't forget pussy.

gold also has a commodity value outside its currency value, meaning that application involving gold will be a huge influence on the value of gold as the medium of exchange.