Does anyone have a link to a page where this is actually used? It seems too ignorant (even for Sony) to contain the actual captcha value within the source.
Apparently you also didn't read the article to the end where the author says:
"Critics of the dollar are having a field day. But when I think about our current monetary arrangements, I am inclined to paraphrase Winston Churchill on democracy: Ours is the worst possible system, except for all the others."
Thus I would read the OPINION piece as a discussion of how one could have a US without a Dollar, NOT a piece espousing this as the way to go.