>>12795916Let's come up with better/more autistic names for currencies of the space-faring future, I'll start;
>Valuicles (val-yoo-kuhls) Like particles but for value, some economist eggheads may think of this idea and shill for it
>GramsBecause so many things will be viewed through the lens of muh payload mass anyway, it could make sense to refer to purchases of things by their mass because you can directly compare the cost of imports to the cost of native production [ie one ton of iridium shipped to Earth is worth 200,000,000 grams, for 5 grams you can buy a full course meal of naturally grown vegetables and meats on Mars, etc
>ChipsBecause the early Moon and Mars colonies are likely going to develop their own underground system of currency not for any official reasons, but for keeping track of personal trades and services happening among the population of the colony. For example, 2000 people living on the Moon, everyone's getting paid in dollars which they can spend once they get back to Earth, but most things are heavily rationed and a lot of things are outright banned/discouraged, so a cheap form of physical, hard-to-counterfeit currency is created to let Sally from hydroponics make a profit giving blowjobs to the sexier millwrights which she can use to buy alcohol brewed by Frank from the electrical department who knows how to make decent wine under his bed but is very much not someone Sally wants to perform sexual favors for. To start off with this currency is completely valueless anywhere except on the Moon or wherever, but to the people living where it is used it's actually just as valuable if not more valuable than their Earth wages, because while they'll get their money when they get back from their tour, in the mean time they want to fuck and get drunk and get high like any other red blooded human.
