I like shiny things, but I also like the concept of a vague token, where some goods are more scarce than others, so they might be worth more, but not so much more that I'd want to carefully slice off a tiny sliver of gold from my chunk.

Some people have been known to trade non-essential goods as money, such as cannabis.

A strange concept, but cured cannabis doesn't go bad very quickly, and to a non-puritan community, it's a fine thing to partake in, and because it can't kill you, having more just means you get more high if you want to burn it, like when we cast SBD into @null.

This is basically lunatic fringe theory stuff, so don't take it too seriously.

Your article was interesting though, so I wanted to reply. =p