Timeline for Why can latinum not be replicated?
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| Apr 8 at 18:03 | comment | added | Perkins | What actually makes something into money is when the demand for it is high enough and consistent enough that people are willing to accept it in trade, even when they don't want it themselves, because they are confident that they can trade it for something that they do want. The difficulty of manufacturing and available supply are incidental. For example, there are places in history where wheat deposit chits at the local granary were commonly-used currency. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 23:02 | comment | added | DKNguyen | I swear, the only reason they made latinum liquid is so they could throw in the word "gold" whenever talking about currency to say "gold-pressed latinum" since latinum alone probably wouldn't mean much to a new viewer. | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 11:27 | comment | added | Edlothiad | @Randal'Thor why is this a non-OOU question? It seems pretty open to interpretation to me. "What is the reason Lantium can't be replicated?" does not suggest "I want an in-universe answer only, any out-of-universe answers or speculation are forbidden". However, am open to evidence of the contrary. | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 10:45 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @Edlothiad But we regularly delete OOU answers to non-OOU questions. | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 6:22 | comment | added | Edlothiad | @Randal'Thor it can't be replicated because from an OOU perspective they opted for it to be used as a currency, and as a currency it can't be replicated. While this doesn't give a satisfactory in universe explanation, it certainly does give an out of universe answer. The accuracy of which is questionable. | |
| Feb 4, 2018 at 22:02 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @Edlothiad No, this answer seems to be arguing the converse: that it's a good choice for a currency due to the fact that it can't be replicated. While interesting commentary, I can't see how this actually answers the original question of why can't latinum be replicated. | |
| Feb 4, 2018 at 21:37 | comment | added | Edlothiad | The answer in this post is that "due to the fact it's a currency it can't be replicated" that is an answer. | |
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| Aug 20, 2016 at 11:31 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | There is one episode where Quark thinks he has acquired a huge stack of gold pressed latinum, but then discovers that the latinum is gone and all he has is a load of worthless gold. | |
| Oct 8, 2014 at 22:09 | comment | added | einpoklum | Actually, today the basis for currency is something which can be very easily created in any quantity you like... | |
| Jan 5, 2014 at 19:03 | comment | added | Douglas | @Jeff: that's a good description of why gold was used as a currency, but modern money is a bit more subtle. It isn't so much a question of whether bank notes are easy to produce, but rather who can produce them. It should be easy for the state to produce bank notes (since printing notes costs money, you want it to be as cheap as possible), but it should be very very hard for anyone else to produce them. Same with supply, it isn't so much that you want a limited supply, but that you want the supply to be limited by someone responsible and trusted, rather than by some random mining corp. | |
| May 14, 2013 at 14:20 | comment | added | Jeff | @KeithThompson: Mine != drill, but your point is taken. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 22:43 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | "you can't usually mine for liquids" -- Tell that to the oil companies. | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 18:51 | history | edited | Jeff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2011 at 18:50 | comment | added | Jeff | Just curious, but why the downvotes with no comment? If you think my answer is wrong or incorrect, please explain. | |
| Sep 5, 2011 at 2:02 | comment | added | Thomas | What, now I'm not allowed to ask my own questions any more? ;-) j/k | |
| Sep 4, 2011 at 3:50 | comment | added | user366 | This is begging the question. When asking "Why can't you replicate latinum?" the question "Why isn't latinum easily created?" is implied. | |
| Sep 2, 2011 at 23:42 | comment | added | Kalamane | They also used the gold bars because we as viewers already associate it with wealth. Though I remember Quark saying that the gold itself was as worthless as plastic or somesuch. | |
| Sep 2, 2011 at 18:57 | history | answered | Jeff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |