Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
You might be a young couple with a baby sharing a one-bedroom apartment with your parents and you want to move out into your own apartment. Not an uncommon situation.
Now they come to the bank and willingly surrender themselves into a nearly life-long slavery. Well, dependance. How that will change if they go to the 'golden' bank, get 1000 gold pieces and then return the same 1000 gold pieces later?

Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
More specifically, because you didn't have the means (=the infrastructure) to use that Joule. That included the research for the infrastructure, the materials for building it, and the labour of the various types. All that combined created a cost. And the amount of comfort that Joule gives to you at a specific point in time creates its value for you at that very point.
I don't mind the added value when it is a real value and in an economy driven by a fixed currency you will find nothing against that... But. Let's continue your line of thought. The initial investments are done and the value is added and established. We put a price to this amount of comfort. Why the next day the cost of that same amount of comfort gets higher? No more value is added, after all. It's only money that got cheaper. Why is that?

Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
I suggest throw away that strange idea of gold and start accumulating electrical energy in capacitors. Perhaps, we could use those Joules in the future with more comfort than now.
I wouldn't put too much smileys here, by the way. Using energy as a cost equivalent is a very promising theory.


Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
Ok, I probably did my best to show you that doesn't make much sense, but probably I'm not all that convincing.
I'll try to make this as simple as possible. Instead of depreciating the value of paper money let's depreciate the cost of goods and services money can buy and keep the money value unchanged. Thus we'll encourage people to create the real added value constantly. After all, money is a 'social agreement'. Why can't we amend that agreement a bit?