[extropy-chat] Vanity Money (was Bloodless Redistribution)

Keith M. Elis zarathustra_winced at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 29 06:19:45 UTC 2005


This idea is interesting to me only if we call it what it really is:
the selling of advertising space on US currency. Let's let any entity,
individual or corporate, enter the bidding. Imagine the behemoth
financial services companies that would leap at the opportunity to have
their logo blazoned across the $100 bill.  Imagine the lottery
organizations that would kill to have 'Use this dollar to play
Powerball' dead-center of the 1$ bill. Billionaires are already rich,
they don't need to advertise. However, many organizations with
monstrous marketing budgets would leverage the farm to bid on this. Why
hope for enough individual vanity when you can rely on good,
old-fashioned capitalism, almost guaranteed?

Keith 



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