i mean, come on, think of all the ways you could game the system and the system could fuck you over

what exactly constitutes as a "mag"? would a damaged mag with half the pages of a regular mag have the same value as a perfectly intact mag? what about a few pieces of paper with shitty doodles of breasts on them? or a wooden carving of a popular actress or whatever?

is all of that just down to personal preference? does how rich you are boil down to what the people you're buying shit from *feel* about your crappy doodles and weird, suggestive pottery pieces?

that sounds like a horribly unreliable economic system

artists could just sit in their shacks all day without having to worry about nfts or ai art because the apocalypse ruined what little computers there are out there, doodling all sorts of freaky shit and having exclusive access to communities with oddly specific fetishes that reject vanilla mags, at least until their consequential inability to trade resources with other areas screws them over in the long run - communities like the aforementioned engine enthusiasts, for example

and what currency do aroace people use? seriously, some people just don't care about sex

because olathe has little to no greenery, food and water is going to be a far, far more pressing concern than getting your rocks off as a straight guy, and the more mags you have the bigger a target you have on your back by raiders, gangs, and probably even warlords with established statelets

i don't know how you could even establish a universal porno currency or even a regular form of currency without an overarching government, i think there will be a lot of places that will revert back to regular barter instead of this janky-ass form of economics