From:	Todd Dresser <tcd@******.DIGEX.NET>
Subject:	Re: crime in a cashless world
Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 1994 10:49:18 -0500

On Wed, 16 Nov 1994, James W. Thomas wrote:

> SR is cashless. all money is electronic.
> this is great for all legitamate work, good for banks,
> businesses, good for everything except CRIME.
> You can't do ANYTHING on a credstick without 'THEM' knowing
> (from ShadowRunners Dictionary)
> (THEM:<noun>the Powers that be; whoever is after you; The Law;
> The police; Whoever or Whatever secretly runs the world;
> The Multinational Corporations; The Banks; 50' giant mutant
> ants that live under Arizona (archaic)]

There is still some cash/bearer bond used in the SR world.
It is just used by the Multi-national Corps to do BIG business.
Very little does that trickle down thing.

> Any certified stic's that carry electronic cash arn't much good,
> as they have to be taken out of a bank and the money fed back in
> to be any use. So'THEY'(see'THEM'above) can still track the
> money. [you thought that cert' stick DIDN'T have ID numbers and
> the date/location issued coded on them? poor you]

I'm not sure which book, but it mentions cred being transferable by
anyone, by just sloting in a personal comp.

> The only way to get 'clean' money is a REALLY GOOD fence/fixer/
> dealer/decker. UNTIL NOW

Alway leave home with "clean" money. You may get hit by a car.

(couldn't reseist)

>
> Goods Pooling
> (for PC's and NPC's alike.all you need is a good rep, lots of
> free capital and a computer)
> You set up by buying/trading goods or services and listing them
> on the computer (OFFLINE) with values you set.
>
> Then you can 'Buy' stuff off peaple by valuing the item they
> want to sell, and giving them that value in goods off the list.
> then you put the stuff you bought onto the list at a mark up.
>
> People can buy from the list by offering goods/services that you
> value and then taking stuff they want off the list to the value
> of the goods/services

You have just become a fixer. Congradulations!!!

>
> Its simple moderated BARTER. and its completely CASH FREE! no
> traces of incriminating credit transfer.
>
> You can buy/sell anything that people value on the list:
> Guns, ammo, cars, real estate, jewelery, grocery
> vouchers, drugs, software,hardporn,clothes, clean cash (@* markup)
> ,new SINS, false papers, hits, lifestyles, services (from sex to
> car washing, anything goes).magic items, focus's, elementals,
> fetishes, planes, explosives, stereo equipment, ANYTHING
> legal, illegal and 'HOT' items all listed
>
> And the bigger the list is, the more stuff on it, the more
> likely you are to find something you want.Or you can just let
> the list owner owe you, just like a bank.
>
> And Big lists can send updates to customers worldwide, so you
> may just find someone who wants that expensive stolen jewelery.
>
> CHOPPER
> sorry for the post lenght, my heads Buzzing.
>
The use of this barter list, requires you to be some where to get hold of
and to have a place to put "stuff" (most likely stuff someone wants back).
It seems to me that you have stopped "running" in the shadows and have
become an NPC.

~GRAY~