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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6684099" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>A point on the subject that I don't think I've seen yet for the reason to switch to a silver standard is one of <em>emotion</em>.</p><p></p><p>To me... finding GOLD should be awesome. A treasure chest filled with gold coins should make my heart go aflutter. And by some chance I find a PLATINUM piece? At that point, I want to feel like I've won the freaking lottery.</p><p></p><p>But that doesn't really happen when gold is the standard coin and by which every part of commerce is judged. Does having a dollar bill in my wallet make me feel like I have something? Nope. A $10 bill? Yeah... now I have some cash. And a $100 bill in my wallet? Yikes, that's an AWESOME feeling.</p><p></p><p>If you make silver the standard... then the silver piece becomes the emotion equivalent of the one dollar bill. It's the standard denomination by which all purchasing occurs. If you then find a satchel of gold pieces... suddenly all that GP is like having a stack of tens. And in those rarest of instances you find like eight PP in a lair somewhere? That's like finding eight hundreds lying around. You feel like you are now flushed with money. It's a much better feeling. Plus the added benefit of all those copper pieces now being the emotional equivalent of dimes, rather than pennies. Copper pieces in a gold standard economy are useless. If you find a chest of them in a dungeon, you leave them there because they're not worth taking. After all... if were to break into someone's house and found a water jug that was full of pennies, are you really gonna grab that thing over the rest of the stuff worth carrying? I don't think so. Piles of copper in a gold standard economy is the dragon just dumping his change on the floor when he comes home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6684099, member: 7006"] A point on the subject that I don't think I've seen yet for the reason to switch to a silver standard is one of [i]emotion[/i]. To me... finding GOLD should be awesome. A treasure chest filled with gold coins should make my heart go aflutter. And by some chance I find a PLATINUM piece? At that point, I want to feel like I've won the freaking lottery. But that doesn't really happen when gold is the standard coin and by which every part of commerce is judged. Does having a dollar bill in my wallet make me feel like I have something? Nope. A $10 bill? Yeah... now I have some cash. And a $100 bill in my wallet? Yikes, that's an AWESOME feeling. If you make silver the standard... then the silver piece becomes the emotion equivalent of the one dollar bill. It's the standard denomination by which all purchasing occurs. If you then find a satchel of gold pieces... suddenly all that GP is like having a stack of tens. And in those rarest of instances you find like eight PP in a lair somewhere? That's like finding eight hundreds lying around. You feel like you are now flushed with money. It's a much better feeling. Plus the added benefit of all those copper pieces now being the emotional equivalent of dimes, rather than pennies. Copper pieces in a gold standard economy are useless. If you find a chest of them in a dungeon, you leave them there because they're not worth taking. After all... if were to break into someone's house and found a water jug that was full of pennies, are you really gonna grab that thing over the rest of the stuff worth carrying? I don't think so. Piles of copper in a gold standard economy is the dragon just dumping his change on the floor when he comes home. [/QUOTE]
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