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

[Samantha Atkins]

Does this topic have something in particular to do with extropy?

- s

On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:26 AM, The Avantguardian wrote:

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>
> --- "Keith M. Elis" <zarathustra_winced at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Because this would kill the spirit of the endeavor.
> The whole point of putting these people on the money
> is to honor these great Americans for "giving back".
> To allow it to become mere advertising space would
> only cheapen the concept and our national identity.
>
> The Avantguardian
> is
> Stuart LaForge
> alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu
>
> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It  
> is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion  
> is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is  
> as good as dead: his eyes are closed. . ."
>
> - Albert Einstein, "What I Believe" (1930)
>
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