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SippyCup@lemmy.ml 1 day agoIt’s almost certainly a joke but bottlecaps in a post civilization society would make a pretty decent currency, more so than gold.
They’re light, easy to carry, hard to reproduce and therefore scarce. They’re also useless for anything else. So if you happened to have a lot of caps laying around they might find their way to becoming a currency.
Gold is heavy, requires a lot of work to make it useful as a standard, and has other practical uses. Caps are actually better.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah but making them isn’t complicated just medieval smelting is needed which is basically the iron ages
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
It’s the crimping and the precision shape that’s hard to replicate, you need a press.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
And that would be doable, realistically. Though there’s a bit of plastic on the bottom that would be quite difficult to replicate.
The point is they’re only useful as a currency. And really only to a society that can’t really make much. If society advances again to the point where a used bottlecap can be replicated, other systems will already have been established to make it less attractive.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
I think they’re talking about plastic bottle caps.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The caps in fallout are not plastic they’re soda bottles from the 1960s-80s.