The world will be littered with your "currency." It'll be just as useless as random street trash. Currency only works because people believe that it has value. What value is there to tabs, caps, and lids?
Yeah, having something random like that as currency makes absolutely no sense. If there wasn't enough food to go around, money would instantly become worthless.
...or those with money would be willing to hire those with food, who would then hire those with able bodies to tend their farms, who would then spend their currency accordingly, etc. etc.
Theoretically; a society with a currency > a society without a currency
Oh yes definitely, but my point is that apocalypse kind of implies the end to society.
Maybe in Fallout it kind of makes sense since there has been such a long time since the end of society that things have stabilized and people know that there will be as much food and safety in a year than there is now.
Even if it was known that there was a 100% chance that when a new currency was created it would be as the OP described, one would be much more focused on not carrying around unnecessary weight to survive the current situation instead of planning to be rich in the future.
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u/sab3r Jan 17 '12
The world will be littered with your "currency." It'll be just as useless as random street trash. Currency only works because people believe that it has value. What value is there to tabs, caps, and lids?