So I think we all know that parts of Africa are a bit, shall we say, poor as dirt (like literally, dirt makes more income than they do). But apparently their currency is so devalued that this is what it cost to get a beer last year.

From the Flickr page:

The attached picture was taken at Country Club bar on Saturday 24th November 2007.
The patron had been to his bank and was supplied with the only notes they had – $500 ‘s !!
A beer at Country Club is now Z$1 Million so there are 4 piles of 250,000 in 500′s.
Just to remind those of you who are no longer here, we lost 3 zero’s in August 2006. So the beer actually costs Z$1 Billion of the money you knew.

That’s pretty horrific. At the same time though, it would be pretty awesome to go to a McDonald’s and be able to pay with stacks of money in a briefcase as though you were making a drug buy in a movie. Which I don’t do nearly enough in real life.

This really just serves to back my idea for a currency. Now, some people in my economics class said I’m crazy. But I think the way our financial system is currently set up is illogical, as proven during the .com craze in which companies with no tangible value were said to be worth billions. We need something substantive, something really. That’s why I believe that handjobs should be our primary currency. With handjobs, everyone across the globe would be equal. Sure, some would be better than others, but that’s what capitalism is all about. So you’ve got your handjobs for small purchases, blowjobs for big ones, and various forms of penetration for huge ones. You haven’t lived until you’ve bought a house for rough anal sex, believe me. Anyway, that’s what I am…an idea man.

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