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[–] charokol@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The money can’t be any real earth currency, and making up something like florbs would also make people roll their eyes. Credits is fine

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 3 points 29 minutes ago

Exactly. You've got limited time to tell your story in a movie, so establishing a fake currency that nobody except hardcore numistatics nerds will care about is kinda pointless when everyone already understands that credits = future money.

And as you say using a real currency doesn't make sense in most future movie contexts, and using the "wrong" one may even offend some people who may then boycott your movie - which is obviously not desirable when you're a studio trying to make money.

I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.