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However, that possibility is why I said it would only work if the system started out with nutrition experts, in a tightly-knit community, so as to establish strong trust, from the get-go. After that, the sheer utility means that nobody with any brains tries to screw the system -- but then, again, if everyone was smart a society would have far fewer criminals. The comment about the venison is cogent, though. You'd need to convert it to jerky or something, before they'd take it, in the first place. That said, I'd imagine the venison would get sold in a market, somewhere, for more tokens than the basic calorie count would suggest -- assuming any other market existed secure enough that business could take place, at all.
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04-25-2017, 06:57 AM | #42 | |
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It's been a long time since I took any chemistry, at all.
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04-25-2017, 07:31 AM | #43 |
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If you're counting by pure calories, the foods of choice will be potatoes and corn. If I were running this granary, I might give a slight bonus for wheat. I'd also build in a caveat that the form of the calories handed back out is at my discretion, not yours.
And selling poisoned grain is a crime in any society. I suspect most communities will be small enough that they each have their own psuedo currency, backed by a local commodity.
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I would give a premium for food that gave complete protein, if that was known to the people who had the granary.
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04-25-2017, 10:24 AM | #47 | |
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Backed paper money works better than paper money if you're just starting out or if you're small compared to everyone else, because fiat currencies need momentum to keep them going.
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I didn't say that gift economies weren't a thing in pre-literate societies. I said that such a society requires stability. For a society to have expectations about who should give what gifts to whom and what benefits the giver should reap from his generosity presupposes such a society's existence and those expectations would require a certain time to develop.
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So, I'd think market enforcement takes place through social pressures, rather than formal legal structures backed by authoized force.
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