RandomPoster
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Instead of the gold standard, every 100 dollars would be backed up by a ton of iron in a vault. Pure iron would be our currency. We would use electronic iron and with a credit card pay 200 tons of iron for a car. The point is that to rob a bank, bank robbers would need a giant fleet of slow moving trucks to transport the iron. Each semi could haul 4,000 dollars. In order to steal 10 million dollars, you would need to steal 100,000 tons of iron. You would need 2,500 semis and have to employ 2,500 drivers. That's 2,500 accomplices. That would be 2,500 fully loaded semis slowly driving on the freeway. Your get away time would be measured in days. Even if you snuck away to a secret location and managed to hide your stash, you would have to fence 100,000 tons of iron on the black market. It would make bank robberies impractical.