Hello, Zig Forums, take a look at this idea I had.
Many people in the Third World suffer from food insecurity. A lot of times, they do have money, but it's worthless because their governments keep printing more and more of it.
According to Wikipedia, rice is the world's most popular staple food. It's especially popular in poor countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. What if one of those poor countries abolished its currency and started using rice coupons instead?
My idea would work like this:
>each rice company would print a set of coupons worth 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 kilograms of rice
>each of those coupons must correspond exactly to the stated quantity of rice, no more, no less
>money would be abolished and people would instead barter in rice coupons
>e.g.: a taxi ride from the airport to city center would cost, say, 10 KGR (kilograms of rice)
>the taxi driver would then go to the rice company's bureau and exchange his coupons for rice, to feed his family
>there would be no monetary authority, the number of printed rice coupons in the society would be solely determined by producers and importers of rice
>no matter how rice prices fluctuate, each family would have their work value stored in coupons that would, at least, ensure it is well fed
