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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Why, it even has a picture demonstrating its approximate worth on it.

[kaijyuu]

Rocks have more use.

[Frumple]

For a second I was going to ask if you could burn a rock, but then I realized you can, in fact, put a rock out in sunlight for a while and then warm yourself or cook things with it. So, uh. Yeah, the rock's more useful in like all counts.

Though I guess you couldn't make makeshift smoking-things out of a rock... wait, no. Pipes, right.

Man, why do we use paper again?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You can also demonstrate your displeasure to your highly corrupt autocratic government for hyperinflating the currency to uselessness with rocks, so its even situationally appropriate.

[kaijyuu]

Man, why do we use paper again?

It isn't quite as heavy.

[GlyphGryph]

And arguably, the hyperinflation situation isn't the worse economic decision Zimbabwe has made.

[Karlito]

There is precedent for using rocks as currency.

[Zrk2]

Ancient Armenia?

[Karnewarrior]

I want an armenian rock. I'll take a little plaque and stick it on a desk somewhere and confuse the hell out of people.

Because the plaque will say "This rock is worth $200 trillion".

But it won't say Zimbabwe dollars.

[Muz]

I've always wondered how people live in that situation. How do you go on knowing that the formal currency is useless? Do you go back to the barter system? Does everyone using silver or tobacco as a currency? Does everyone just stop working government jobs?

[mendonca]

Obviously the people who are really getting rich are the Bank Note Designers.

[Snowblind]

It's bigoted to condemn them, they have been victims of colonialism and imperialists who've robbed them of everything, they cast out their white imperialist oppressors and have started from square one trying to recover everything that was taken from them.

[IronyOwl]

I've always wondered how people live in that situation. How do you go on knowing that the formal currency is useless? Do you go back to the barter system? Does everyone using silver or tobacco as a currency? Does everyone just stop working government jobs?

Stable foreign currencies (usually the US dollar) are a common substitute. Other than that, no idea.

It's bigoted to condemn them, they have been victims of colonialism and imperialists who've robbed them of everything, they cast out their white imperialist oppressors and have started from square one trying to recover everything that was taken from them.

It's not "bigoted" to discuss how printing currency at will destroyed the economy. Please stop using whatever words you think will make your target sound bad.

Beyond that, imperialism's got nothing to do with this, other than as a scapegoat for the jackasses pulling this off. The current, strongly anti-imperialist faction's been in power for decades, and almost everything that's gone wrong appears to be a result of their wanton incompetence and/or greed, not some mythical scars lingering from when they were a colony.

[Loud Whispers]

And on that note I find it's pertinent to add I have one of these pinned to the corkboard above my desk.

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The highest second highest highest non-Hungarian denomination of (at some point) legal tender to date.

[chaoticag]

It's bigoted to condemn them, they have been victims of colonialism and imperialists who've robbed them of everything, they cast out their white imperialist oppressors and have started from square one trying to recover everything that was taken from them.

But.. no one is being condemned, other then the governing agency, which is responsible for the economic state of Zimbabwe. We didn't even bring up the Zimbabwe Land Reform here, we're talking purely on the economy, and driving out the 1% of land owners that owned 70% of the land has nothing to do with making the current government above criticism.