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Wed Aug 27 01:39:08 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> BlueMeanie4: see also 'hawala' in moslem world, 1000+ yrs.
Wed Aug 27 01:38:20 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> they used to use 'wooden coins' aka tally sticks all the time during the middle ages
Wed Aug 27 01:37:49 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> BlueMeanie4: no one, afaik, finds this particularly offensive. but how does it follow that the farmers will require a growing supply of the wooden coins?
Wed Aug 27 01:37:42 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> <BlueMeanie4> they are not places you would want to live << amusingly, the state says this of anarchy all the time. yet i've lived in anarchy and much prefer it to any kind of currently available state.
Wed Aug 27 01:37:41 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> i dont think they are a panacea, but rather a tool that can be used to generate wealth
Wed Aug 27 01:37:00 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> sure
Wed Aug 27 01:36:50 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> ya ok
Wed Aug 27 01:36:50 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> BlueMeanie4: this is not an uncommon thing, and exists even here in usa (my local vegetable merchants at the market often trade with each other in primitive wooden coins they've agreed on)
Wed Aug 27 01:36:49 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> <BlueMeanie4> Mircea - because so far no one has produced any sort of cogent response to my point << you would think that in either case.
Wed Aug 27 01:36:34 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> whats your city
Wed Aug 27 01:36:18 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> these days maybe not
Wed Aug 27 01:36:03 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> something like that
Wed Aug 27 01:35:54 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> BlueMeanie4: your story concerned a town which printed its own internal currency, yes ?
Wed Aug 27 01:34:45 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> or various immature responses designed to detract away from what is obviously a failed argument
Wed Aug 27 01:34:18 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> so far i have yet to see anyone pose any interesting examples- mainly your typical libertarian bellittleing etc.
Wed Aug 27 01:33:35 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> true, but the employment opps didnt necessarily exist
Wed Aug 27 01:33:13 UTC 2014 <decimation> BlueMeanie4: your story of paupers proves nothing. if they had to skills to bulid houses, they have the skills to earn money to build houses
Wed Aug 27 01:33:05 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> and you think Keynes was an austrian?
Wed Aug 27 01:32:35 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> nubbins, that exactly what they did
Wed Aug 27 01:32:23 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> bats- have you?