• AwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 days ago

    I’m not sure how you would accomplish a secret credit chip, with or without cash, sorry.

    Assuming we’re talking about granny slipping her grandchild a few bucks though, what’s stopping her? Nobody’s proposing a system where under 18s are cut out of the economy. Everybody gets a bank account the moment they learn to crawl. Granny just sends the money to her favourite grandkid of the month.

    None of this is hypothetical BTW, before you start trying to come up with scenarios why this doesn’t work. This is literally the system in Norway.

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      23 days ago

      Christmas could be accomplished via a spreadsheet too. Just have a big table where the labels on each axis are all the people, and you can enter the values for what gift each gave to the other. Reveal the squares in random order with a timer.

      It’s functionally equivalent! It’s how we do Christmas in Norway, so there’s literally no reason it can’t work.

      It’s not like kids will be cut out of the Holiday system. We can have special user accounts, maybe with read-only access to the spreadsheet.

      It’s functionally isomorphic guys. It’s a proved model and we’re just wasting time holding off the implementation. Norway bro.