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Monday, March 12, 2012

5. Paper money ceases to exist.

No one pays with paper money any longer. All money is transferred electronically via personal identification chips. There are still many people who collect paper money, but no stores will accept it. This reduces the cost of transactions. For example, the government doesn't actually have to waste money by printing money. They simply issue money to extremely tightly regulated financial institutions called banks.

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