| From: | runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com |
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| Subject: | Cash, Credit and Crime |
| Date: | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:41:04 -0400 (EDT) |
From: Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.com>
Subject: Re: Cash, Credit and Crime
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At 11:10 PM 6/30/99 -0400, kawaii wrote:
>I believe canon material states that electronic money is the order of
>the
>day, and that most shops look on with "disdain" when one tries to
>purchase
>that Nuke 'em burger with cash. Corp scrip, however, is still
>popular.
I don't know about the "disdain" part of it, but I did come across a
reference in my recently bought copy of NAN1 (yes, recently bought;
I've been filling in gaps of OOP books in my SR collection) about cash
the other day:
NAN1, p.101 [Emphasis on the word 'few' added by me.]
"...the Sioux nation is one of the _FEW_ that still mints cash. One,
five and ten nuyen coins are made of metalized plastic, and coated
mylar bills come in denominations up to 1K nuyen."
Of course, this canon quote leaves much of the issue up in the air.
Sure there might only be a 'few' countries minting cash, but those
countries could include economic superpowers like the UCAS and Japan.
Even with just a few nations minting currency, those nations'
currencies would most likely be found in shadow economies the world
over. In contemporary times, for example, terrorist organizations
partially bankroll their operations by counterfeiting US currency.
There are a couple of reasons for this, one being the fact that US
currency is generally easier to counterfeit than other countries'
notes, but secondly, the fact that US currency is almost universally
recognizable and generally accepted for conversion to whatever the
local currency is.
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