Zimbabwean Dollars!

[angle20 10]

a Zimbabwean version of Who Want's to be a Millionaire? with a top prize of $1,000,000.

 

That'd be even worse than the Weakest Link.

[slimsid2000 10]

That'd be even worse than the Weakest Link.

 

 

In the Zimbabwean version contestants who are voted off are shot by firing squad.

[teddie 10]

In the Zimbabwean version contestants who are voted off are shot by firing squad.

 

Nay, Slim lad into the cannibals pot they should go. Let's keep it real (food shortage and all that)

[Heyesey 11]

It's a shocking prospect isn't it! I'm unsure how the practicalities manifest themselves on day to day basis...

 

 

In most cases, people have already reverted to a barter system. Accepting money for your goods is a daft thing to do, when by the time you've taken the money down the street to the bank it's reduced in value by 99%.

 

There are classic photos from the German hyperinflation of the early 1920s, including a child playing lego with stacks of trillion-Mark bills, and people carrying their wages home in a wheelbarrow. (On at least one such occasion, a man was mugged, and the thief dumped out all the money and took the wheelbarrow...)