I am 77 years old, and Seared in my memory is a short video and notes on the small villages in Japan abandoning government currency totally, and using chits exchanged at a table for all the village business. Foodstuffs, bicycle tires, or whatever. Maybe your fabulous researchers
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https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/economics/when-the-money-dies/