So I just got an idea, I was in the store today and saw a bottle of "the pop shoppe" brand cream soda, this brand comes in glass bottles with distinctive aluminum bottle caps, it's a smaller brand that nonetheless has a significant enough presence in Canada for what I'm about to suggest. Looking at it inspired me to think about the use of cola caps as currency in the fallout series, and made me wonder about it;s use as an alternative currency in an alternative economy. the plan is simple: All you gotta do is go door to door in your neighborhoods around your areas (as in "areas that you select"), and ask the residents one simple question: "If people were buying and selling goods and services to one another exclusively using these bottle caps as the only accepted medium of exchange, would you participate in such an economy?" Tally up the "yes" and "no" and "did not respond" results as you do this. Show these results to the people you interview. When you get enough, come back here and compare your area's results with those collected by others. Use these results as the basis for setting up this economy, create goods and services of your own, advertise them as widely as you can. Buy up these sodas in order to collect their caps, then trade these caps for the goods and services you offer, and accept nothing else as payment, these sodas are $2.00 Canadian, so that is the value of each cap because it's what you need to buy into each one with, you must therefore round your prices to something cleanly divisible by $2.00 Canadian. Of course, save up the caps you gain from this commerce, they are money after all, and trade these with more and more of the participants. The caps are bought with Canadian dollars, but get reused over and over as they circulate throughout this parallel economy, that money is gone from the Canadian government, and people are sustaining each other without using the official currency of the state. "It's going to get shut down and people will get arrested" no shit sherlock, but that isn't the point here, these are the necessary sacrifices and causalities of the war we are waging. Initially, we keep it down low, start up deepweb sites where people can offer legal goods and services, like food and other essentials, exclusively for these caps, make sure to police bad actors in this economy by allowing customer feedback, keeping records of the violators, and removing what looks to be them from using the service. Over time, switch the "cap economy" up to the main internet, focus on the youth, as they are the best demographic for any sort of radical change to the prevailing culture, set up sites that boldly advertise legal goods and services in exchange for caps. Make sure that before this gets shut down, that it gets big, and acquires a lot of media attention, this is the real goal of the operation, to open people's eyes to their degree of freedom within this society. To make people confused and to start up some strange memes across the internet. to shake things up in such a way as to make people feel things they just aren't feeling right now. It's the feeling that creates revolutions, not anything else, when people feel unafraid, confident, and just don't give a shit about obeying the draconic aspirant totalitarians that rule over us right now. such an operation is good because it makes the banks afraid. "the pop shoppe" caps are effective for this for the following reasons: they are essentially coins, distinct, limited, lightweight, with a known initial value, a balance between being scarce, but also widely available, and they belong to a smaller and more local business that very few know about already, this gives it more meme potential. Lastly, "the pop shoppe" is one of the few soda companies that actually makes a trade in glass bottles with caps on them. I think it's going to be very funny when this becomes the next biggest meme in politics, caps into coins, initially valued at 2 canuck dollars (until it inevitably takes on a different valuation from being disconnected from the source). No, it's not going to replace the national currency, it's going to be more of a currency that is localized to specific municipalities, but people will see that in these places, a handful of these caps can get you a loaf of bread and some beef stew, or a night at someone's home, or a new deck chair, or whatever.