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i dont get this sub ron paul militia world obsession with gold as if some abstract notion of fixity of supply makes the value imputed to it more "Real" than the value imputed to script.
and unless you loop this onto questions of the nature of value (where it comes from, what it is) writing buzzy little screeds about how safe gold is gets you nowhere close to "understanding economics"---all it does is allow you to express some anxiety about uncertainty, which is all this ultra-right libertarian stuff about money seems to be about.
we'll all get together and use this here scarce shiny shit for money and abolish the federal reserve and regress to some warped and incompetent society-for-creative-anarchronism version of feudalism but we'll be able to fool ourselves into thinking how very Moral it is because the Evil State won't be running around Distorting Stuff and we'll all have our little tiny piles of shiny stuff and everything will be grand, just grand, because ayn rand tells us so.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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