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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:34:37AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> tomás writes:
> > You can dream of a society where some basic things aren't monetized.
>
> Scarce resources *must* be allocated. Trade, facilitated by money, is
> a decentralized way to do it.
(straying dangerously off-topic, so I'll stop at this)
...but money can put those who are able to "print" it at an
unfair advantage ("printing" in some figurative sense, speculation
is a form of printing), which tends to end badly when such resources
are vital.
Cheers
- -- t
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