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Better ways have been found a long time ago in ancient egypt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_%28currency%29



The great thing about using ancient Egypt to support social theories is that there's no evidence there.

For example, we still don't know if the workers who build the pyramids were slaves or freemen. Kind of a big deal for that society.




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