overall....it would definitely be advantageous to most all of us to be able to buy, or sell whatever in ONE CURRENCY......
...I'm sick of giving funds to money changers and banks all over this planet, just so that they can change a pound, a yen, a dollar, a peso, a franc, a euro, a ringgit, a kroner, a ruble, a shekel, a dong, a baht, a rand, a bolivar,a rial, a leke, a dinar, a schilling, a taka, a Yuan renminbi, a won, a kwatcha, a dirham or a rupee/rupiah and a multitude of other currencies into the currency I can actually spend.......meanwhile the banks and the money changers are all taxing you a percentage of what you NEED to change up.....
It's a little deeper than losing money to money changers, Gypsy, but your point has been made, and you're surely right.
but the future of this planet must be to get away from the ancient ideas/ideals of nationalism and protectionism and head for a more global understanding that we all bleed and that we are all humans on this planet that need to co-exhist in a free global market economy.....and to do this properly and efficiently we need to do this peacefully and with just one currency.....if we had just one global economy.....and not hundreds of national economies, no one would have to starve or fight....
There will still be governments paying their people the equivalent of .07 cents(just under a new name) a day i.e. unfair trade advantages based on human rights violations.
I wasn't trying to rip on ya at all, I was blown away when I first saw the CC edition of monopoly and quote it and talk about it anytime someone mentions the money or game.
Cork: Why are you wholly against a world currency without even considering the possible merits of one? There are many ways to implement this. I have the same fears as you, and probably more, about such a system, but I (and it seems GreenBastard does too) think there is a way to make it work. Maybe more than one.
Is it obvious that this is an important topic to me? LOL
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies … If the American people ever allow the private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816.
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was the beginning of the end for The United States of America.