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It is a good begining
I do

Problem is not with the currency but with the salary. Changing currency won't support to raise our salary. Will it?? 
I support only  if everyone in the world  will be given the same salary in dollar bills. 

yes I do. if it has a tabgible backing like gold or silver. its a real good idea.

No, it's rubbish.
look at the mess of a Mickey Mouse money we know as the Euro.

Actually I am convinced with the advances in technology, internet and communications money as we know it will soon become a thing of the past.

More and more businesses are using electronic payment methods, even small shops are accepting credit card and debit card payments. Checks have almost become obsolete after 3 centuries of use.

Now with the advent of smart cards, smart phones with the capability of swiping a card with a "dongle" attached almost anyone can process debit/credit card payments almost anywhere. Smart phones also offer tap and pay capability that doesn't even need to be approved unless the purchase is over a certain amount.

Given all this plus the fact that the currency of many nations is very unstable I think the whole idea of a "universal" currency will never get off the ground. It has been discussed, debated and rehashed for decades and still gone nowhere. I think that given our advances in information technology we've gone well beyond the point of no return. Paper currency and coinage will go the way of the Dodo bird as more and more people use cyber-money.

Just my two "bitcoins" worth!!!

Cheers,
William James Woodward - Brazil & Canada Expert, Íæż½ã½ã-blog Team

I do support and its really a very good begining

wjwoodward wrote:

Actually I am convinced with the advances in technology, internet and communications money as we know it will soon become a thing of the past.

More and more businesses are using electronic payment methods, even small shops are accepting credit card and debit card payments. Checks have almost become obsolete after 3 centuries of use.

Now with the advent of smart cards, smart phones with the capability of swiping a card with a "dongle" attached almost anyone can process debit/credit card payments almost anywhere. Smart phones also offer tap and pay capability that doesn't even need to be approved unless the purchase is over a certain amount.

Given all this plus the fact that the currency of many nations is very unstable I think the whole idea of a "universal" currency will never get off the ground. It has been discussed, debated and rehashed for decades and still gone nowhere. I think that given our advances in information technology we've gone well beyond the point of no return. Paper currency and coinage will go the way of the Dodo bird as more and more people use cyber-money.

Just my two "bitcoins" worth!!!

Cheers,
William James Woodward - Brazil & Canada Expert, Íæż½ã½ã-blog Team

Great James,
You show us that we are discussing something that is innocuous.
What is really important is to be able to buy the things you want, in every place, in any currency.
In fact, with cards, currency does not matter anymore.
Additionally, mal 09 is right in that I copied below

mal 09 January 2014 03:31:32
Problem is not with the currency but with the salary. Changing currency won't support to raise our salary. Will it?? 
I support only  if everyone in the world  will be given the same salary in dollar bills.

mal wrote:

Problem is not with the currency but with the salary. Changing currency won't support to raise our salary. Will it?? 
I support only  if everyone in the world  will be given the same salary in dollar bills. 

One world currency does NOT mean one salary for all since people do not have the same size, same emergencies, same health, same metabolism, same goals, same deadline, (edit added: same number of posts in this forum) ... same etc., etc. 
Not to mention that the unemployeds do not even have a salary at all.   

(Observe that if you do not say 'Hello', I do not say 'Hello' either ...) 

Nice as it may be I cannot see all the governments of all the world's countries agreeing to that idea.

Look at the Euro and the EU. It has never worked that well.
Different countries, different needs,  different monetary policies.

You are right Stumpy...

stumpy wrote:

Nice as it may be I cannot see all the governments of all the world's countries agreeing to that idea.

Look at the Euro and the EU. It has never worked that well.
Different countries, different needs,  different monetary policies.

Hi Stumpy, 
Governments must be forced into it because they work only when pressurized and only in the last minute. Little churches must be demolished and people must unite for the supreme common goal: survival.
Life is already impossible for the past few hundreds years and what counts now is whether we all can work as one by our own will.  If not, enormous social forces will make us work as one with no choice.
What Tom, Dick and Harry want does not matter.  EU did not work well because cavemen still live there and have no clue how to make cyber-age life easy.  They still use stomach logic which no longer works. 

Some governments will arc up at being forced into something they don't want and this may well lead to conflict, armed or otherwise.
You will never get everyone to work together on this.
The Toms, Dicks and Harry's do matter and should have a voice in this.

I still say that a one world currency is a pie in the sky idea and will never come to be.

stumpy wrote:

Some governments will arc up at being forced into something they don't want and this may well lead to conflict, armed or otherwise.
You will never get everyone to work together on this.
The Toms, Dicks and Harry's do matter and should have a voice in this.

I still say that a one world currency is a pie in the sky idea and will never come to be.

Hi Stumpy,

1). Governments change, we the people stay.
Younger generations come with new demands and bring automatic change with them.  Opinions change because of social pressures.  What happens today was unheard of 20 years ago or 45 years ago when I was a teenager. So will be in the future.

2). Tom, Dick and Harry protest in the streets and they get shot (in some countries) or beaten by Police (in other countries) or both.
What became of Occupy Wall Streeters?  What became to the Spanish 'indignants'?
The crowds are always looking for a new leader and they always take him down.

3). One world currency has been debated by many more influential persons than you and me.
If it's bound to happen one day, it will happen because of automatic lack of options in the future and it will surely be not trouble free.

I asked the question to see how many expats react, and I thought I may hear something original.  One world currency is something we shall hear about more in the years ahead.
I'd love to learn something good about it.  If asked to vote, I'll vote for it.