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> the state reserves some of the harshest punishments for counterfeiters This is empirically untrue [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_money#P

• cowsandmilk 6mo ago
  The number of countries where life imprisonment is available possible sentence for counterfeiting seems to confirm it having some of the harshest punishments.
  • PowerElectronix 6mo ago
    One of the fastest ways to make a state powerless is to make the money they issue and use to pay for everything worthless.
  • JumpCrisscross 6mo ago
    > number of countries where life imprisonment is available All of those, I believe, have the death penalty for e.g. corporate fraud. This is a bit of a nut job hypothesis. States don’t collapse because of private counterfeiting. It simply becomes an economic nuisance. The budget given to anti-counterfeiting in any country is generally a rounding error compared with other policing.