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Let's bring ourselves back then to what was being stated. You said : > The US, UK, and Japan are all currently fighting deflation with QE policies, which seem

Let's bring ourselves back then to what was being stated. You said : > The US, UK, and Japan are all currently fighting deflation with QE policies, which seem to be working fairly well. ... and I said : > If by working you mean rapidly transferring wealth into fewer sets of hands, yes. ... and then you said : > Are you saying that avoiding deflation and volatility is what consolidates wealth? I was talking about the effect of QE. That effect being the objective fact that money has transferred from people with less to people with more. You were inventing a strawman about the theory that if the people who were doing this didn't get what they wanted, we would have 'deflation and volatility'? Seen the house markets over the past 30 years? Looks pretty volatile to me, so it doesn't sound like whoever is making policy has their fingers on the pulse, do they? Sounds more like a marketing gimmick to me. I had to write a paragraph of crap to answer a BS premise that had no relationship to the argument at hand. So. Strawman. > Furthermore, I don't know how to make heads nor tails of the statement that the "concept of value itself" has been "perverted" Maybe you got fixated on your strawman. > but at least the dollar isn't suffering from deflation and extreme volatility Yeah. Theft is much better. Here is a gun to your head. Give me what I want or I pull the trigger. But at least you don't have deflation and volatility. Remind me again... how many people went to prison for the GFC?

klodolph 9y ago
> I had to write a paragraph of crap to answer a BS premise that had no relationship to the argument at hand. Are you saying you don't want to respond, but something forced you?
- Frogolocalypse 9y ago
  What do you think?
  - klodolph 9y ago
    I've certainly thrown my fair share of insults around on Hacker News. Petty? Yes. Wrong? Yes. I'm a slave to my baser emotions from time to time, and I won't excuse that. The general technique for insulting someone on HN is to be subtle and imply that they're stupid, to provoke them into getting angry and saying something stupid, or to throw indirect insults by describing their comments as "garbage", "crap", or whatever. I hope one day that I'll grow out of it, it's an awful habit. The saying, "It takes one to know one," seems appropriate here. Coming out and saying that you "had to write a paragraph of crap to answer a BS premise" is a bit transparent, don't you think? It's a roundabout way of saying, "you're so stupid that I had some kind of moral duty to correct you, which is a waste of my time because I have better things to do." But... why would you call attention to the fact that you have better things to do than argue with me? Isn't that basically the same thing as admitting that you're bad at prioritizing your own time, that you feel compelled on some emotional level to debase yourself by talking with me? Which brings me to an alternative strategy: if you think someone's wrong, ask questions. Maybe you'll learn something, maybe they'll learn something, and maybe it's just a misunderstanding.

klodolph 9y ago

> I had to write a paragraph of crap to answer a BS premise that had no relationship to the argument at hand. Are you saying you don't want to respond, but something forced you?

Frogolocalypse 9y ago
What do you think?
- klodolph 9y ago
  I've certainly thrown my fair share of insults around on Hacker News. Petty? Yes. Wrong? Yes. I'm a slave to my baser emotions from time to time, and I won't excuse that. The general technique for insulting someone on HN is to be subtle and imply that they're stupid, to provoke them into getting angry and saying something stupid, or to throw indirect insults by describing their comments as "garbage", "crap", or whatever. I hope one day that I'll grow out of it, it's an awful habit. The saying, "It takes one to know one," seems appropriate here. Coming out and saying that you "had to write a paragraph of crap to answer a BS premise" is a bit transparent, don't you think? It's a roundabout way of saying, "you're so stupid that I had some kind of moral duty to correct you, which is a waste of my time because I have better things to do." But... why would you call attention to the fact that you have better things to do than argue with me? Isn't that basically the same thing as admitting that you're bad at prioritizing your own time, that you feel compelled on some emotional level to debase yourself by talking with me? Which brings me to an alternative strategy: if you think someone's wrong, ask questions. Maybe you'll learn something, maybe they'll learn something, and maybe it's just a misunderstanding.