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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"] am i misunderstanding? you seem to be just talking about the transmission mechanism whereby people exchange rights to commodities, and you can see that in the future digital technology will have a place; as have the 'paper' method of exchanging commodities and the 'coin' method. [/quote] No. You're
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[quote user="Juan"][quote] We could trade based on any standard.[/quote] Not at all. A currency is a common medium of exchange. [/quote] We could use digital conversion rates for different standards. We could in a free digital economy try out any kind of currency we wanted to. It would just get converted into that other currency online...
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I was wondering if we could have digital currencies that all of our currency problems could be solved. We could trade based on any standard. We wouldn't even need government to pay for our services. Keynesians could have their way with charitable NPOs... unless I'm wrong about the currency. A digital currency could solve a lot of our problems
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What I do is when I read or after I read I usually think about the book I'm reading and how it relates to life and to me and to other things I see. I try to put it in perspective. I don't try to memorize every little thing that's said. I try to memorize the big points and to understand the general message. I learn the important concepts
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[quote user="Esuric"] [quote user="SilentXtarian"]I remember him saying that philosophers have made no significant contribution. That's not true in my opinion- philosophers helped jump start human thought and without them Ludwig Von Mises wouldn't be where he was today (and I also disliked his comments about philosophical
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I would ask him two questions 1. How does he expect a system of trade to work in a communist society? If there were no free market prices trade couldn't happen and everything would be controlled by a state. Wouldn't that be contrary to anarchism? 2. Ask him how he expects to ever get past real socialism (with the dictator of the proletariate
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Okay. What I meant by that statement is that it's a philosophy that aims at underlying certain causes of various phenomena throughout the universe and that it looks at it more from a collectivist perspective because it ignores the individual. I would like to introduce you to a concept called idealism [quote] Another proposal discussing the mind
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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"] can you back this up? Rather metaphysics aims at trying to find the underlying causes for group action [/quote] Perhaps. [quote] Necessity and possibility See also: Modal logic and Modal realism Metaphysicians investigate questions about the ways the world could have been. David Lewis , in "On the Plurality
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I think I do have something to discuss. What I am discussing here essentially is that I think that Ludwig Von Mises doesn't understand philosophy. Let me point out another quote. [quote] The postulates of positivism and kindred schools of metaphysics are therefore illusory. It is impossible to reform the sciences of human action according to the
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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"] just as there are popular idiocies now, there were popular idiocies then, and Mises attacked them. what's the problem? spell it out please. Mises was not right about everything he ever thought. who is? but still, what actually bothers you about the quotes you posted? [/quote] What bothers me is that yes- he attacked