Money

In Micronesia there was a money stone, huge in proportion, perhaps once a millwheel brought to the far away archipelago as ballast in the hold of a sailing ship or to preform its actual fucntion. A square hole through the center of a massive round stone, the huge stone represented wealth to the native peoples of Ponape. Can't get a loaf of bread with it. It is far too heavy to move, to even roll, and how do you make change? Coins of copper silver and gold date back to man's earliest history. So what are the Micronesians doing without any coinage or currency in the 17th and 18th actually into the 19th and 20th centuries?

I was a millionaire for one day in Venice Italy when I went to the monetary exchange and got over a million Lire for $500. I bought a lot of good times with my million spent it all in three days. At the height of inflation in Brasil my wife tossed me some spending money as she was going out with her aunt and cousins, 500,000 Cruseiros. After buying a pack of cigarettes with my half a million, I did not have enough left over to get a bottle of beer. I thought of the German man in an old black and white news reel rolling a wheelbarrow full of deutsche marks to the market to get a loaf of bread during the great depression.

Fort Knox was once stacked full of gold. I know that because I saw Pussy Galore trying to steal it in GOLDFINGER. One thing people always say is, "You can't take it with you." A lot of people have died trying. I believe counterfieters will get so good at what they do, that in less that twenty years paper money will be so corrupted, you will not be able to see the difference. Governments will scramble to find solutions, but hackers will make, and already do make plastic that passes for your mastercard. Something that truly calms me in these trying times I have known the REAL Smoothstar to say many times in my distant past... "Damn it all. Blow it all." I am not going to get myself a hernia trying to roll a giant millstone into my front yard.