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Guerilla, you've spoken eloquently on several economic issues - but you haven't thought out the repeal of legal tender.
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Unless you think we should run off of a barter economy alone?
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That's not the only alternative.
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You can't have millions of people deciding what they think is the correct word processor. You bring the economy to a halt.
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You can't have millions of people deciding what they think is the best job. You bring the economy to a halt.
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You can't have millions of people deciding what they think is tasty. You bring the economy to a halt.
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You can't have millions of people deciding who they think they love. You bring the society to a halt.
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You can't have millions of people deciding what they think God is. You bring the society to a halt.
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You can't have millions of people deciding which channel to watch. You would bring the entertainment industry to a halt.
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You can't have billions of people deciding which currency to trade in. You would bring the global economy to a halt.
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Actually, competition is good. It's always good. You get the most transparency, the most
freedom, the most options, the most security and the most efficiency.
There are competing currencies in the world. There are competing credit cards and other forms of payment.
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You can't have millions of people deciding what they think is legal tender. You bring the economy to a halt.
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I don't think you can have a handful of economic and political elites deciding what is legal tender. They will use it to cornhole the masses.
But that aside, if you believe in competition (which I do) why would you want a monopoly in money? Or in government? Or in religion? Or in politics? Or in anything?
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You're driving out west, what do you pay for gas with? Merchant doesn't accept that - now what? You need to stay at a hotel, what do you pay with?
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Presumably a hotel owner services people from out of town, not the locals, I am quite sure he would be willing to recognize different forms of payment. Again, it doesn't have to not be money. It could be Citibank bucks. Unarmed Gunman Rubles. Wickedfire Dollars. Or maybe he could accept your credit/debit card, and the transaction would be automatically converted by Visa/Amex/MC into the currency of his choice.
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Store owners don't like the way you look, so they won't accept your money, etc.
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I worked in stores. We took money from anyone with money. Hoes, crack heads, cops, blacks, whites, hispanics, male, female, old, young etc. We weren't the MFing Salvation Army. We were there to make a profit.
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Think it through.
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I and a great many others have.
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Everybody has to agree on what has value in order for an economic system to work.
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You're overcomplicating it. Do it like foreign exchange. We have the technology.
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Show me a sufficiently large scale economic system in existence today that proves otherwise....
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