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Originally posted by InevitableBetrayal:
So the question is, why is a 26th century mudder pop star singing about dollars and cents, a unit of currency that would be over 800 years old in his day, and come from another planet?

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Originally posted by InevitableBetrayal:
Please pardon if this has been brought up before...
We've seen reference to platinum in "Safe" and "bits" in "The Message", and although I might be missing one (possibly having to do with "credits"--the ubiquitous sci-fi currency stand in), they never talk about dollars and cents except in this one episode.

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The reference to credits is in "Safe" as well, in the flashback where Simon's father pays the fine to get Simon out.
Probably it is not exactly the right quote, but Mr. Tam says something like "I just paid 2000 credits to get you out"

Maybe Credits is the common Alliance currency, with the others, like Platinum and bits are more local currencies used in the outer worlds?

And who knows, maybe the planets and moons themselves have another local currency made up by the first settlers to arrive there.
So the mudders could still stick to Dollars and Cents as the offical mudder-currency?

Just my take on it, though

Keep flying,
Gavida

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Originally posted by db:
And even if there are no dollars anymore, there are certainly cents. (Assuming, of course that some derivative of the metric system exists here) What else are you going to call hundredths of a credit/platinum/whatever?

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Originally posted by dug:
There's plenty of examples in our American language of using outdated terms for money:

-Two bits (older american phrase, I think)

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Originally posted by belasera:
Wish I made $150 a day. Those are some pricey indentured servants they got there!
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