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Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by dickeytk on Monday December 23, 2019 @08:40PM (#21869162)
We’ve seen a bit of this domestically too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
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Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by Ididntdothis on Monday December 23, 2019 @09:48PM (#21869456)
Well, I am glad I work in medical devices. Vouchers for stents or pacemakers probably won’t be very attractive.
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Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by dickeytk on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @07:13PM (#21875826)
Scrip is certainly not limited to the products a company produces. In the states it was lumber and mining companies but the stores offered whatever people needed.
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