"I paid by legal tender in this dystopian place."
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The legal situation is as follows: legal tender means that if you owe somebody a debt, they must accept that legal tender to pay that debt. It does not mean that people must accept legal tender for any trade. Terms of trade must be agreed by both parties and may have all kinds of rules in them.
So you can do the trade, somehow fail to pay according the terms of trade. Now you owe them a debt. Now you can pay that debt with legal tender.
Legal minds - please correct me if I'm wrong.
Piers Corbyn - prize twat
Uhhh, its not a debt because that company would have had to agree to issue a debt, usually with terms and an interest rate. After you get slapped with a fine there is no requirement for the company to accept legal tender from you as repayment, I think.
That's not what I mean by debt. If you violate the terms of trade, you can be sued. That court can then impose damages. Those damages will be in fiat currency, not strawberries, not bitcoin. Those damages will probably be more than the original price though, maybe even a lot more. However, the court may force you to pay in bitcoin or strawberries if they are aware that you hold such. If you claim you don't have any strawberries/bitcoin, then you'll be paying in fiat.
I dunno about debts, I'm pretty sure it's only taxes. But it probably is about debt. The laws are for the banks, to be very clear. The banks effectively collect more taxes than the governments in many places, via collusion with the central banks. Much of the taxes goes to the very same central banks, on top of their inflation.
