View Full Version : What if fish became the new currency?
_____V_____
07-07-2009, 07:43 PM
Would people still eat em?
Hmm...
Despare
07-07-2009, 09:29 PM
Would people still eat em?
Hmm...
Good question, I would have to say yes... but only the smaller denominations. They used salt to preserve food when it was used as currency, that's all I'm basing my guess off of.
Angra
07-07-2009, 09:33 PM
What if fish developed legs and took over the world, hmmm?
_____V_____
07-07-2009, 09:47 PM
What about decayed/decaying fish then? Will they be good enough to pass off as currency?
Like say, a 20 lb fish denominated as 1000 dollars starts decaying...will it still hold good to be used as a 1000 bucks piece?
Or will they eat it? (marinated in curd maybe?)
bwind22
07-07-2009, 10:02 PM
If fish were currency, I'd be glad that I live in the land of 10,000 lakes.
Elvis_Christ
07-07-2009, 11:43 PM
I could only see fish being currency if it was eaten/used for something.
Decayed fish would be worthless as currency unless it could be put to use in someway.
Kleptron
07-08-2009, 03:08 PM
We can skin a buck and run a trout line and a country boy can survive.:cool:
ManchestrMorgue
07-08-2009, 05:30 PM
Fish won't become currency. There are several good reasons for this:
1. Imagine how much your wallet/purse would stink
2. They are too large, so wouldn't scale well.
3. Pelicans would be the richest people in the world
4. The world is already drowning in debt, so sourcing your currency from the ocean would be counter-intuitive
5. Everyone would have to go to loan-sharks for funds
On the positive side, however, there would be no need for a stock market and a fish market, they could easily be combined.
The_Return
07-08-2009, 06:17 PM
Decayed fish would be worthless as currency unless it could be put to use in someway.
Why?
Aside from being used as currency, can you come up with a practical use for a dollar bill?
Elvis_Christ
07-08-2009, 07:11 PM
Why?
Aside from being used as currency, can you come up with a practical use for a dollar bill?
Snorting cocaine
bwind22
07-08-2009, 09:00 PM
Snorting cocaine
When you're right, you're right.
ferretchucker
07-09-2009, 07:07 AM
I wouldn't. Use the fish to buy some nicer food!
ChronoGrl
07-09-2009, 07:36 AM
I'd imagine that switching currency from paper money to piscari money would stimulate the economy. In order to avoid rotting fish flesh in one's pocket, the individual would make haste to spend, thus supporting local businesses. Internet and e-business models will suffer as people will now physically feel the pressure of getting rid of these festering fish bodies and flee to stores and places of business to spend, spend, spend!