Sounds like something that would be trivial for the wealthy to circumvent while being very expensive for the poor to do the same. Someone with the means can just pay someone to continuously refresh their money with new money. Unclear on how people will deal with transactions when different bills have different values from what’s written on them.
Most likely you’ll be getting the older bills that are close to expiry if you’re poor. It doesn’t matter how much time they’re given when they’re minted.
Isn’t that almost the same thing? No way a dollar bill that is 1 day before expired would have the same value as a dollar bill that expires in a year.
Or do you except a shop would have to accept a bill that expires in 10 seconds and they won’t be able to do anything with it? Would you be fine if your employer paid you with bills that expire in 2 days?
Well, its a thought. There are a lot of variables to capitalism. Just thinking of ways to improve the system if there are people who are dead set on keeping it forever. Maybe it should lose value. If, say it was a 50 year expiration date, the exchange that generated the value has long since past.
You could also implement a buy back where the government gives you a flat rate on expired currency or a tax write off but you have to meet a minimum threshold.
To me its important to recognize that money is what we say it is. We can do whatever we like with it.
The biggest problem would be the immediate devaluing of the dollar, countries participating in our economy would attempt to purchase other currencies. So in that light it would be infeasible but maybe there are ways to transition.
If you think thats fine, thats ok. We arent changing anything here today and most likely ever. So if you wont engage because you think your going to teach me something today, jokes on you.
This is not what im talking about and they are not 1 for 1 analogous.
What are you talking about than?
Hard expiration date tied to the day the currency was created.
Sounds like something that would be trivial for the wealthy to circumvent while being very expensive for the poor to do the same. Someone with the means can just pay someone to continuously refresh their money with new money. Unclear on how people will deal with transactions when different bills have different values from what’s written on them.
Why would poor people have difficulty living with this change? They live hand to mouth.
And they’ll stay there if they can’t save up any money.
If the expiration date is 25 years? 50 years? 100 years?
Most likely you’ll be getting the older bills that are close to expiry if you’re poor. It doesn’t matter how much time they’re given when they’re minted.
If they spend at around the equivliance of at new minted bill and youre not trying to save them, what does it matter?
If you are trying to save youre not keeping hard cash youre investing it. So then we would see a lot more investment spurring on growth.
Isn’t that almost the same thing? No way a dollar bill that is 1 day before expired would have the same value as a dollar bill that expires in a year.
Or do you except a shop would have to accept a bill that expires in 10 seconds and they won’t be able to do anything with it? Would you be fine if your employer paid you with bills that expire in 2 days?
Well, its a thought. There are a lot of variables to capitalism. Just thinking of ways to improve the system if there are people who are dead set on keeping it forever. Maybe it should lose value. If, say it was a 50 year expiration date, the exchange that generated the value has long since past.
You could also implement a buy back where the government gives you a flat rate on expired currency or a tax write off but you have to meet a minimum threshold.
To me its important to recognize that money is what we say it is. We can do whatever we like with it.
The biggest problem would be the immediate devaluing of the dollar, countries participating in our economy would attempt to purchase other currencies. So in that light it would be infeasible but maybe there are ways to transition.
Again, at 2% yearly inflation, the money would have only 37% of its original value after 50 years. And inflation tends to get higher.
People who “hoard money” usually invest it into something.
If you think thats fine, thats ok. We arent changing anything here today and most likely ever. So if you wont engage because you think your going to teach me something today, jokes on you.
What are you talking about? What do I think is fine? And how am I not engaging?
Will you hear me out?