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I read a fun book once that proposed we should go off the gold standard and go onto the plutonium standard. Plutonium loses value as it decays, so you have incentive to spend it. If you keep it too long, you're likely to get cancer, so, again, incentive to spend it. And if you collect too much of it all together in one place, it goes kablooey, so there's one more factor limiting wealth hoarding.
But in the real world that stuff would have been weaponized by bad actors. i like the core concept tho.
That sounds interesting, do you remember which book explored this?
Found it! It's Yet Another Modest Proposal: The Roentgen Standard, by Larry Niven
Thank you! :)