
In recent history, a promissory note, became exchangeable for that tangible.Today, a promissory note has no tangible value. The the only value of the currency is, as a representation of the asset of the national debt, what the banking cartels hold, in the form of our debtor nation's collective honor. The ghostly worth is easily revealed, when the corrupt economic tyrants in charge of printing these notes, succumb to the temptation of creating a bottomless supply, to their own pockets. I want to make that feat of idiocy, harder to do. Our money woes are just beginning. Bartering will return as a daily means of localized commerce. And there will be temptations to return to standards of silver, gold and gems. That would be folly, to tempt the return of banditry and piracy, indistinguishable from their heydays. We need a notion of commerce that is adaptable to the needs of the next several millennia. The promissory for salt was perhaps the most stable of currencies in all of history. Though like oil and coal today, it's easy for some to acquire, and for most it's not. It was worth making the providers and merchants of salt very wealthy, as the commodity was, and still is, universal. What would be the most universally descriptive term, for a unit of energy? Easily convertable from any other unit of energy, from a calorie, to a watt, to a drop of gasoline? Would it be the therm or thermie? We need the most translatable and non euphemistic term available, to base a new bartering <b>...</b>
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