Food for wages

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Hypothetical- would you subsitute the world monetary system with either chocolate bars or pizza as your wages and purchasing means ? if so, how would the lower production and availibility of choclate as opposed to the ability to mass produce pizza effect wages and inflation of the value of goods

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    1. LAOG May 1, 2020
      As hypothetical as this is, clean drinking water will become one of the most valuable sources of wealth in 20-30 years. Also both chocolate and pizza are in abundance meaning neither would be valued as highly causing in a weak currency system that would falter in a few years.
    2. OnceandFutureLurker Apr 30, 2020
    3. Femme Fatale Apr 6, 2020
      I wouldn't want to make it my salary for working. I'd rather it be a supplement where you exchange things as part of a trusting partnership/relationship. That way I could better control the quality of goods are up to standards I find acceptable and how much I can or cannot exchange. I would also prefer for it to be local...so I could visit them and they visit me. I'd also then be able to go out into the 'open market' and buy items that cannot be easily sourced through barter. Like computers and mobile phones.
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    4. imK Apr 4, 2020
      A barter system? I would take it. Not for chocolate, but other things I find useful. Tools, equipment, livestock, seeds, seedlings, etc. It still operates in some places (I come from one), usually rural. We swap what we have (labour/skills/goods) for what we need. I prefer it over money since I get a direct benefit from it. Money is just paper. It used to have representational value, but too many businesses and governments gamed the system for too long. Hasn't caused anyone I know to run out of anything yet.
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    5. felidormit Apr 2, 2020
      speaking of substituting monetary system with food, happened in North Korea where workers got Choco Pie as a part of their compensation.

      answering your question, i would not. because the problem of either i'll eat my wages on the spot or the wages get expired fast.
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    6. OnceandFutureLurker Apr 2, 2020
      @GonZ555 there is much more flour than cocoa powder , so the potential of pizza is vastly greater. and you are mistaken about the amount of pizza places to chocolate plants. here in America there is a pizza joint/s in any town with more than 1,000 people. And yes the ability to grade chocolate would be a plus which would reignite the gold-silver standard debate of the 1800s'. However after further thinking if we go with chocolate Indonesia would be theWorld power and if we go with pizza U. S. would remain so
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    7. Melodious Nocturne Apr 2, 2020
      :cookie::cookie::cookie::cookie::cookie::cookie::cookie::cookie::cookie: Show me the cookie munny!!! :aww::aww::aww::aww::aww:
    8. GonZ555 Apr 2, 2020
      Lower production of availability of chocolate? What are you talking about? There are a lot more chocolate factories rather than pizza place..
      Also, with chocolate you can grade the value of the chocolate bar with the purity of the chocolate~
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