Of course when can do better, I just think "today's world" gets shit on far more than it deserves especially when compared to fantasy. We've done far more in terms of human rights and standard of living and just sheer stuff made and learned in the last 200 years than almost all recorded history before then. It's understandable to be frustrated with a slow pace on somethings but the sheer pace of change is quite staggering when you consider it.
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"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
Ambrose Bierce
The Bird of Hermes Is My Name, Eating My Wings To Make Me Tame.
no a lot of people on lower incomes still use cash.
I don't want to bash on religion here, but that graph of the knowledge gap between pre-dark ages and now is pretty telling. Honestly the supposition is that we could easily be a spacefaring race if we hadn't taken that huge leap backwards.
I'm kind of toying with the idea that a couple militaries already have rudimentary AI's, which will either make things amazing or end humanity forever.
As I mentioned earlier. Or you seemed to ignore a previous post of mine. Barter is still a form of trade. The "ounces" of gold is what matters as melted down or NOT. Gold will remain a universal form of currency until the desire for something completely different comes into our minds. "Value of Possession" is what drives currency.
Again... common sense...
And bartering is more primitive and less useful than currency trading, which is where currency came from. Gold is not a currency anymore than copper or wool is a currency, it is a material. Using gold in currency increases the instability of the currency as the value of the gold may easily surpass the face value of the currency it is used in. Even worse still is a currency that is used to represent amounts of gold, as it allows ones currency to be controlled by the market for a raw material.
It seems like you're confusing the fluidity of a resource with it being a currency.
From the inflation standpoint, there is little difference between paper and digital currency. Actually, digital would be VASTLY more prone to corruption. With paper, they actually have to have printing presses run and distribute the cash to destroy the value. With digital currency, they just log on to a computer and add a few zeroes at the end.
The threat here is that corrupt governments will destroy the currency via inflation to pay for social programs. Digital currency does not protect us from that in any way.
What the ....?
You want gold, not numbers on a screen, one day your Dollars will plummit, and whoever got the gold will end up beeing extremely rich.
Just look at the banks, it's all funny money, and it's fun while it lasts, but in the end, nothing is valuable like good old gold.
This is simply not true. Dollar Bills and other paper currencies around the world are not backed up by gold at all. Dollars represent only themselves and the confidence people have that they hold a value.
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Yeah, I'm expecting a huge gold crash here in the next few years. If anything, Gold is MORE prone to booms and busts than fiat currency. Hell, just look at the value of Gold through the 80s.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!