Oddly enough, I'm a money atheist. I don't believe it exists! I think it's just a fictitious, all-powerful concept invented by humans, to comfort themselves in their basically empty existences.
Or perhaps I'm a money agnostic, since I see no evidence of money in my life.
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Vonnegut, in one of his books, talks about the full-scale demise of the monetary system as we know it, since it is based entirely upon us accepting that one piece of paper is worth more than another piece of paper. Once we decide that paper is just paper, there is no longer any currency.
I feel like I've read so much Vonnegut over the years, and like that's so close to how I see money - you know, imaginary - that I must have gotten it from Vonnegut, or founded my take in his. Even though I can't for the life of me place which story.
Jailbird, could it be, maybe?
I think it's originally from Galapagos, though he uses the concept in Hocus Pocus, too. It really becomes a running theme through much of his work.
Huh. Maybe he uses it as an aside in something else. Those are two I haven't read!
I'm working my way through the whole oeurve, but I'm doing it in a weird order. Like, I've read Palm Sunday but not Galapagos? Come on.
I don't know if that's how to spell "oeurve", but it should be.
oeuvre
Sorry, that's how it should be spelled. If you spelled it your way, you wouldn't pronounce it correctly.
I've had this theory since I was little, and to this day I still hold that it's rock-solid.
And it is... the mints (if they are still called that) should just print everyone a shed-load of money. Then we would all be very, very happy.
These so-called economists will tell you that this will lead to something that they call inflation, but, seriously, what would they know?
I don't trust them. I don't trust people who understand numbers.
I've heard they drink Diet Pepsi.
I think some countries have tried that, Mel!
My theory is, everybody should just get ONE bill of money, one banknote, and you can buy ANYTHING YOU WANT with it that's for sale!
But after that...once you spend it, you're broke for the rest of your life.
Unless somebody wants to try to buy something off of you, I guess. But in no event is anyone ever able to have more than one. If you try to get a second banknote, it is forfeit to the government as tax.
And then they can buy whatever they want with it. ONCE.
Wow, other countries have tried my theory?. Cool! I'm so moving to one of them. Or better yet, starting my own country. I wouldn't be a dictator. No, not at all. It would just be a case of "what I say goes".
As to your theory... it has potential, but also some flaws. It's like that whole "if you had one wish, what would you wish for?" dilemma, and some smarty answers "well, an infinite amount of wishes, of course".
See, because, if you just get one bank note, with which you can buy anything you want, well, I would buy five bank notes. Pretty soon, in this JoeLand of yours, I'd be the equivalent of a multi-millionaire!
Unless you meant that one bank note only equals one item, in which case... I'm screwed.
Oh wait, you said "But in no event is anyone ever able to have more than one".
So, I'll just have to hide the extra ones I procure. In a secret-Cayman-Islands-bank-account kinda way.
I can do that.
Well, I did say you could buy with it anything you want that's for sale. No one would have five to sell you.
But there's still some kinks to be worked out.
Oh, that Cayman Islands thing wouldn't work - under this scenario, the Cayman Islands is the central government of the whole thing.
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