Has society outgrown its need for fiat money and governments?
It seems like fiat money and governments come with a set of advantages and disadvantages that we may prefer to replace; with something entirely different and that comes with a different set of advantages and disadvantages.
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No. Because ...
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I don't like the fact that the Federal Reserve (the private entity of bankers that control the U.S. dollar) can reduce the value of my savings with its monetary policies. It is as though they can steal from me with impunity. Where are the checks and balances? Who are they accountable to? Who regulates/oversees them to make sure that they are not acting under conflicting interests? We should get rid of it all and write a book: "Goodnight Obama, Goodnight Rush, and Goodnight Bernanke whispering hush. Goodnight Goldman, Goodnight Sachs and Goodnight to our beloved Green Back." ;) Side: Yes. Because ...
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No. Because you see if we get rid of governments, the cornerstones of society, who pays for the military? Who decides how to talk to foreign countries? How do we determine representatives to give everyone a practical voice (not pragmatic with direct democracy). If anything society has grown to need money and governments. Currency makes the world run efficiently, as do governments. Without the two we'd all be living in caves, trading rocks and spears and living to the age of 27. Side: No. Because ...
"No. Because you see if we get rid of governments, the cornerstones of society," If society was a building, Government would be the roof, the cornerstones would be a key thing for a country like production. "who pays for the military?" We do, it's called tax. Government just acts like a middle mand who takes a bit on the way through. "Who decides how to talk to foreign countries?" See that's the probem with the U.S, here in Britain we have the Monarchy. "How do we determine representatives to give everyone a practical voice (not pragmatic with direct democracy)." We don't that would be electing a government. "If anything society has grown to need money and governments." Only because the government has changed it so that happens. "Currency makes the world run efficiently, as do governments." Americanism teaches people that they need money, so that's what they believe and the government controls money. At the end of the day money is just a bit of paper that is only as valuable as someone things it should be. "Without the two we'd all be living in caves, trading rocks and spears and living to the age of 27." So what you're saying is, as soon as we got out of caves we thought: "Hey, we need something to value everything and we need a group of people to control us and determine how we should live, and this will cause us to live beyond 27 summers and winters" Side: Yes. Because ...
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