Post #733390 by tikiskip on Thu, Dec 18, 2014 12:40 PM

I did think of that too.

But on Going Tribal a TV show about day-to-day lives of tribal cultures around the world.
Going Tribal had one show where a family owed a debt to another family and this would be
paid in dog teeth or ornate shells that this family owned.
All of the families had these and this was their money, as well as maybe trading pigs or other things
people may need.
But they wanted the shells.
The government wanted these tribe people to stop using these things as money and use real paper money.
But the tribe folks did not want any of the worthless government paper money.

After all how can the government tax a sea shell?