>>23016Their currency was stronger comparatively to the bottlecap but people still didn't really like using it. Basically everyone in NV complains about getting paid in NCR dollars, even NCR citizens, while the conversion rate between Legion currency and caps is much more favorable. A paper currency is only good once it has established itself as an economic standard, but a coin minted with rare and valuable metals are always at least somewhat valuable in any economy. Most NCR citizens use a mix of caps and barter where they can because the NCR dollar is massively inflationary with war spending, loss of gold reserves, and a heavy wealth disparity concentrating money at the top, which is kinda parallel to the early US during like the Whiskey rebellion where the lower class of the US actively rejected dollarization and stuck to local bartering economies with alcohol as the "standard" measurement for currency, in the same way caps are only valuable because they represent the value of a sealed bottle of clean water.
>>23024That is less a lack of vision on the part of Caesar and more his main point - in Fallout we have a literal canonical end to how America develops - nuclear war as their expansionism and imperialism finally gets halted by the Chinese and their economy collapses under the strain. If the NCR uses the US as a plan to the letter, them ending the world in nuclear fire in 200 odd years is basically an inevitability, a contention against the NCR which both Legion and the BoS hold. Shit like the OSI shows they are already playing with fire, getting the "growth enhancers" out of Vault 3 which literally killed everyone in it, and they are already approving of nuclear warfare cause if you nuke Legion in the end of Lonesome Road you get enough fame to be near-idolized by the NCR.