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It’s still likely less hassle than amortising capital expenses for something that will likely be written off well before end of life and then needing to dispose of it. As a consumer of fire sale disposed laptops, renting shouldn’t be allowed.

We can sell new 100 year bonds to pay the interest on the old ones.

I think it’s positive to have them opt-in to a common payment system on top of any national system they might currently have. Redundancy (and the possibility to leave, though potentially crippling) is politically attractive to many.

Ideally they drift toward consensus by skimming the best protocols, but it also permits incremental development where e.g. a smaller system might nominate itself as a test-bed for a specific feature, or bounties for external firms to compete over simultaneously.

At a large company I was paid in cash, delivered weekly in an envelope by a HR gentleman. While it wasn’t the most efficient system, I skipped back to my company home every week feeling like a millionaire.