What is latinum

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-04-21 03:58pm

Robert Walper wrote:Could it be the very fact the substance isn't easily replicated, making it valueable?

not unless there was some intrinsic value placed upon it by a culture. being difficult to manufacture/replicate alone isn't really enough to give something value. There has to be someething people desire from it or a wide application for it.

HRogge · Post by **HRogge** » 2004-04-21 04:01pm

Maybe it's not valuable at all... it's just a method to make the money "copy proof". It would just need an agreement of some large financel powers to use it as money to make the whole thing working.

Similar to a bill today. They are not valuable at all, they are just hard to reproduce and everyone had agreed to use them as money.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2004-04-21 05:57pm

HRogge wrote:Maybe it's not valuable at all... it's just a method to make the money "copy proof". It would just need an agreement of some large financel powers to use it as money to make the whole thing working.

Similar to a bill today. They are not valuable at all, they are just hard to reproduce and everyone had agreed to use them as money.

I agree with Rogge, like a quater or a 5 dollar bill, it's only useful because it's accepted as a medium of exchange cause people will accept it.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2004-04-21 11:31pm

Bah. My currency-of-preference remains the good old-fashioned Quatloo.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-04-22 12:31am

Robert Walper wrote:Could it be the very fact the substance isn't easily replicated, making it valueable?

That depends on its usefulness. There are some things that while rare, have little use and are therefor not valuable.

Latinum is valuable and we know it can't be replicated. We theorize its also rare. Yet where does the value come from? Was it arbitrarily selected to represent money for multiple governments while the latinum itself has no other value? This doesn't make sense because that would mean latinum is backed by governments and its value is subject to gross change. Instead latinum seems to be a fairly solid standard that rarely changes. This means latinum has some other value that can also be translated into monetary value. Latinum must have some sort of comercial application.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-04-22 02:54am

Maybe it's some form of wierd sci-fi deuterium... (urianium enriched water), purhaps it's dilithium enriched water....

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2004-04-22 10:26pm

Darth Wong wrote:Of course, you know where this is leading: N-A-R-C-O-T-I-C

Not neccessarily. Societies right here on Earth have used coca beans as money, in the past. Not the smartest idea to use something that literally grows on trees as cash, but I'm just pointing out that's it not out of the question for latinium to have orginally obtained value for some stupid reason and that the reason was eventually forgotten or just ignored while latinium was still used for currency.