It's not a negative that physical metals as money are NOT CONDUCIVE to globalization, it's A FEATURE - a positive one.
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artificial scarcity Keynesian scam

In the earlier days of Bitcoin, just about everyone in (this thread) was pro-metals.

Don't get me wrong.. standing up for the sour puss, roach, but he has received much more than 12 merits.  In fact, he has received 194 merits from other members since the implementation of the merit system.   You can see all of his received merits on BPIP.  Currently, he is ranked as 312th most merited, which is no small feat given the thousands of BTC talk members... also, kinds of contradicts his points about only the undeserved receiving merits, and he seems to be a kind of "undeserved" merit receiver... while quite stingy in giving out any merits..

So, for me, the quantity of Roach's merits is a kind of "who gives a shit?" consideration.