RayR wrote:Thanks to the glorious fiat money system and the FED artificially manipulating interest rates we have more debt than anyone could have imagined when the dollar was pegged to gold. YEAH PROGRESS!
We also have the biggest bombs!
RayR wrote:
We've had FED fueled financial bubbles and busts nearly every 10 years! YEAH PROGRESS!
Buy the dip? Duh?
Sell the bubble? No? Nothin?
RayR wrote:
We've had more wars than any war profiteer could have ever dreamed of. YEAH PROGRESS!
Again duh?
Again, we got the biggest bombs!
RayR wrote:
The value of the dollar has steadily declined, something that was virtually unheard of before the FED. YEAH PROGRESS!
A bit less than a troy ounce was worth 20 dollars. Talk about price fixing...
Take something rare and make it a fixed price, makes sense... YEAH!!!! GOLD STANDARD!!!
RayR wrote:
We've had marvelous innovations that only a Marxist could love like the progressive income tax. YEAH PROGRESS!
Pretty much all civilizations had to pay tax in one form or another.
We already know you're an anarchist though. The more I think about it, the more I think you are more a Sex Pistols kick 'em in the head type anarchist.
RayR wrote:
Celtic, you're stuck on this idea that technological advancements wouldn't have occurred at a rapid pace if we had a sound monetary system. You must have seen that in your crystal ball.
Celtic is right... and your "sound monetary system" would still be here if it actually was sound... wouldn't it.
Who ever taught you all you know didn't know wtf they were talking about... at least not about the really real world.
They got you stuck in a fantasy anarchistic utopia.