Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 02:36:38 PM

Quote from: legiteum on Today at 02:12:42 PM

No, the world's money supply is not controlled by a secret cabal of jews.

Yes, it is.

Wow. Okay. I guess if you believe that, then... you'll believe... all kinds of things.

My only tip would be to not make major financial decisions in your personal life based on this nonsense...

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And no, the USD does not "rob people", any more than AAPL or NVDA or Bitcoin or gold or any other investment "robs people".

Yes it does. In contrast with AAPL and NVDA, people historically save on fiat currency. Under the gold standard, they used to save in gold (or at least, promises of gold), but after 1971 (and a few decades before that), everyone's savings sit on pieces of paper the Fed prints out of thin air.

So if the value of an investment goes down, you consider that "robbery"?

If Bitcoin comes down in price from it's current highs, will be consider that to be "robbery" too (and maybe the jews have gotten to Bitcoin! Oh no!).

You seem to be quite aware of the risks of the USD investment, and I think you'd need to dig pretty deep to find a person with any reasonable amount of money on the planet who has not heard of the concept of "inflation", so I don't think you can say that there's some sort of fraud associated with USD (etc.) either. Indeed, the primary reasons people place their money in investment funds and so forth is to trade out of USD--same as they do for cryptocurrencies as well.

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People are free to trade out of USD any time they want

Here's the genius of the scam: Opting out of the USD means you invest your money. Investing and saving are fundamentally different, because investing includes an acknowledged risk.

No, they really aren't any different. All forms of saving/investing/speculating, regardless of the instrument, involves risk.

Anybody who tries to tell you that they have a "foolproof investment that can never possibly lose value" is lying to you, and most likely some kind of con artist.

USD is an investment, as is Bitcoin, as is NVDA, as is gold, as is buying shares of a local business, as is betting on a sports team winning on the weekend. All of these things involve varying degrees of risk, both upside and downside.