Quote from: PeterTheGrape on May 25, 2017, 12:23:59 AM

Quote from: Elwar on May 24, 2017, 10:29:46 PM

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Awesome. Sign me up for the government that is so good I would voluntarily pay for their services. And it would be so awesome that they would not need to use extortion to get you to pay.

Where is this magical fairy land?

Historically fiat money is part of the same mechanism that involves enforced consent for taxation.

Most people in fiat economies do not protest what money is spent on because they are all appendages of the beast, their will is projected onto the bureaucrats whose will is projected onto the construct. If you ask them if it was right to spend trillions of dollars killing millions of people thousands of miles away, they will stare blankly ahead, not even blinking to clean their eyes, and say "huh?".

The crypto economy hopefully will oblige people to think about currency or pay a price for their zombieism.

Yet, there is nothing wrong with money that is simply used as a means of exchange. It makes barter a whole lot easier in many circumstances.

The bad part comes in when some shrewd people use it to slyly steal from unsuspecting, honest users of money.

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