UK to introduce plastic bank notes

Now we can't even burn the old world money after the revolution, we'll just heat it up and it will make an unpleasant smell.

It would have been nice with some links.

Canada and New Zealand have already had them for years though, so don't think this is something new. I wish they would phase out metal coins and start making them out of plastic as well, but that would probably make it too instinctively obvious that the monetary system was a joke and that the currency had no intrinsic value.

I also don't see what the state-imposed currency has to do with capitalism as an economic system.

Interesting. We have had them in Australia for a very long time, but recently they are replacing the five dollar note with a new version. I wonder of the UK making the change and this new note of Australia are linked, like they may be introducing digital surveillance through plastic notes.

Or not.

Plasticizers leeching out of polymer notes causes autism

So fucking wasteful. I hope it's special biodegradable plastic.


No they should replace it with chocolate coins.

Got to find more and more reasons to keep drilling for oil I guess

Well, if you look at history and the birthing of the capitalist mode of produ- Oh, didn't see your flag, won't bother trying.

It's not biodegradable, but it's recyclable, they get turned into pots and shit when they're not in use anymore.

It's less wasteful than paper money because it lasts a lot longer.

Except paper is infinitely renewable unlike plastic

It's renewable if we just keep recycling it :^)

What if every tree on earth is cut down and every seed destroyed? How "infinitely" renewable would it be then?

It should be recycled into buttplugs.

I dont know about elsewhere but in the US money isnt made of trees, its a cotton blend.

Most plastics still burn. Polyethylene is basically a lot of gasoline fused together.

Plastics can be made of vegetable feed stock, and cotton is highly dependent on oil derived fertilizer.

How long it lasts in circulation dominates the embedded resources.

Capitalism is the free exchange of goods and services between individuals. We don't have a free market as currency is half of every transaction, which the state forces us to use against our will. What the state decides to do in detail, such as what material the notes are to be made of, after already having violated free exchange, is irrelevant to what capitalism is.

Classic. How do you explain Adam Smith saying the state was required for Capitalism to exist? Or the fact that the State(you know with like police and the federal reserve) arose out of capitalism as a way to curtail class antagonism.

I thought the new hotness was for states to eliminate physical currency entirely, and force citizens to use bank and credit cards only.
That way hoarding is impossible, and all money can be held hostage by the banks for investments/repression versus popular dissent.

For crying out loud. Fine, you can kill the wind too if you build too many turbines, you know what I mean.


Well okay. Same with cotton.

When ancaps are being filmed (you know when you see them smugly agitating "commies" and later post on youtube), one should always ask them what a capitalist is and what they do within the context of capitalism.

They revere Adam Smith but act like he wasn't aware of any of the discrepancies of capitalism that Marx and others would later expand upon.

Also is somebody collecting screencaps of all these ancap posts where they keep wrongly defining capitalism?

nigga wut

you will melt it, and erect a sculpture of a dead porky with it.

Implying there ever will be a revolution.

no that's socialism