I think they’re talking about plastic bottle caps.
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DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 4 days agoYeah but making them isn’t complicated just medieval smelting is needed which is basically the iron ages
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The caps in fallout are not plastic they’re soda bottles from the 1960s-80s.
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
It’s the crimping and the precision shape that’s hard to replicate, you need a press.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
And that would be doable, realistically. Though there’s a bit of plastic on the bottom that would be quite difficult to replicate.
The point is they’re only useful as a currency. And really only to a society that can’t really make much. If society advances again to the point where a used bottlecap can be replicated, other systems will already have been established to make it less attractive.