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Potatos_are_not_friends ,

I love this stuff. Just making random shit up.

“Water bills are illegal because of the Poseidon contract, where the moon’s gravity fields are generating motions of the wave. Therefore, it’s against the human law to charge for water travel, which includes to your house! Which by the way, your house is a domicile, which is a portomanteu of Dome Mice, based on the 3-Blind-Mice standard, and thus they have no right to charge you.”

Holy shit I just wrote that in one go. I think I should be a sovcit grifter.

BonesOfTheMoon OP ,

That’s wonderful sovcittery!

waigl ,

Gold was never a widespread means of payment for the common people. It is way too rare for that to even be a practical possibility. Aristocracy, kings and emperors may have occasionally done this, but only for major things and matters of state, or sometimes when they wanted to impress someone. Also, a bit later, banks of course held on to a lot of gold and long distance traders used it, because they couldn’t rely on either their customary set of values nor on credit from the locals.

Silver, for obvious reasons, was more widespread, but still far from universal.

The common people would pay for things with stuff that both parties agreed was worth a certain amount of gold or silver (prices were a lot more rigid back then), possibly other metals, but quite possibly just IOUs or other forms of credit. In a tightly knit rural community where everybody know everybody else, and neighbors would assume to stay neighbors for their whole lives, that actually worked. In a modern suburb where knowing your next-door neighbor’s name is more a matter of maybe-if-you’re-feeling-polite, not so much.

It is true, however, that the US government at some point confiscated gold from private citizens and outlawed private ownership of gold. Once in 1933, and then arguably once more in 1971.

breadsmasher ,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

Is this person saying they get bills with payment in gold and silver? Like their ISP asking for 3 ounces of gold for their internet connection?

Mac ,

Jesus Christ and i thought my internet bill was expensive.

Dkarma ,

“how do we discharge?” Never explainsLol

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