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Originally Posted by Leto
in Japan? is Japan considered 3rd world? It seems that it's been like that there for decades.
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No, Japan is an industrialized country. Newly, I should add.
By inflation in third world countries I meant various countries in Africa. Take Zimbabwe for instance. The money there is a ... joke.
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Originally Posted by dlish
i dare say that the cotton suppliers will be pissed off with you if you tried to change all cotton money to plastic. it'd take away from their livelyhood. how much of a fight they'd put is a different question.
i guess they'd have to come up with some ways of providing better value for money (excuse the pun) and a better product that'd rival plastics' current advantages . maybe with additional security features or maybe drop their profit markups to keep their market share.
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I agree that they would cause a lot of noise but the downside of the matter is, with cotton, durability suffers. This translates to it being more expensive (more so than plastic) to produce in the long run. Cotton procurement isn't as easy (relatively, given the high amount of plastic products) as plastic is. Plastic is recyclable at a higher scale.
Plastic just makes more sense.