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by qwytw 2y ago
> the number of denarii kept going up. It wasn't even minted by the 300s. There were multiple attempts to replace it with a new stable silver coin but none were very successful. > Well, for one thing, most people wouldn't be
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> And what do you think happens once the tax is collected by the government? It is spent Well yeah, I kind of thought that was the whole goal? If we assume/believe that governments generally are capable of spending that money in a m
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> This isn't plausible Why? Of course it wasn't accessible or particularly useful for the majority of people but it was central to the Byzantine economy/financial-system functioned. Soldiers were paid in gold (every 6 or 1
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> PRC and ROC have the unfinished civil war between them. Because the PRC doesn't want to finish it, peacefully anyway... At this point it's 90-95% one-sided. Who do you think isn't allowing Taiwan/ROC to renounce its
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> All the rest is details and pretexts. Not really. The details matter much more, in fact the overall policy in the US in recent years has been almost primarily shaped by the sum of those details. Look at EU/US vs Russia, overall no
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> The scale is unprecedented. Relative to the geopolitically important of the target country? Yes. Looking at the scale of the sanctions themselves? Hardly. I still think the other factors I listed are more important. > "if you a
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And they missed the West imposing sanctions on Iran, Iraq, Yugoslavia, South Africa and many other countries in the past? Russia's position in the global economy is radically different to that of China's. Especially from the persp
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> You're also not mentioning the fact that the mismanagement of the 19th century was in large part due to foreign actors. Well, yes.. Since Poland/Lithuania wasn't an independent state anymore and Poland lost most of its a
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IIRC paper was mainly made from linen or cotton back then and it actually was less likely to turn yellow than more modern wood pulp paper (which was only invented in the early 1800s) Paper made from textile is slightly alkaline and contains
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> rapidly approaching the development level of leading EU countries further emphasizes the point. Well same applies to pretty much all of Central/Eastern Europe, and my point is that events prior to the 1900s didn't necessarily
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Sure, but US has almost doubled its production since the early 2000s while consumption has actually slightly decreased. So I'd question the need to maintain a very large reserve anymore. IMHO these days using it as an "economic to
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> but how would the US feel about a country You mean about anonymous individuals (who might or might not be citizens of that given country) throwing around that idea on an online forum? But I'll try not being facetious. I do of cour
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> But a half millennium ago it was the largest state in Europe by area. Since then, the country has been attacked and dismembered more than pretty much To be fair the country become entirely dysfunctional (mainly due to internal reasons)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre I don't think there was any going back from this... The core of the Polish Home Army was made up of people belonging to the same social groups and their relatives or as
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The fact that that "next" occupier was also the initial co-occupier and massacred over 20,000 people from the same poll/social class the same resistance group was mainly composed from (army officers/intelligentsia/l
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> colluding with many major suppliers to stop food and commodities exports to China > Reality is more than enough Except it's all hypothetical?
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Wouldn't even at peak levels (700mil) the total reserve be enough for just ~35 days or so? Of course that's still a lot but I'm not sure if 300 million barrels over a couple of years could affect prices that much. Also it kin
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If cooperatives can survive and compete with private enterprises without excessive regulation and government coercion that limits and competition and leads to lower productivity that's great. As far as I can tell that's rarely (bu
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> I would argue capitalism just so happened to be our method of progress Personally I strong believe that (free) competition was the actual real "force" behind it. It just happened that capitalism (however flawed) provided the
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> Our world is being destroyed by capitalism, maybe its time to try something else. Well.. same could be said about "democracy". Despite its many inherent flaws (and even a more non inherent ones) free market capitalism has bee
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> Sick of people applying the catch-phrase "socialism" People claiming that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy is "socialism" are not any less silly.
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Please list any countries are are "just socialist" not communist. If we're compared hypothetical systems vs actual real-world ones it's not exactly fair. > existence of Norway Which is certainly not a "socialist&
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> (by any metric you care to track) healthcare systems of any industrialized nation That's certainly not true. Of course compared to pretty much every highly developed country if we factor in relative spending per capita you'd
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> Socialism does not mean central planning of a whole economy What other forms of semi-stable functional "socialism" are there? > have become meaningless to discuss political and economical systems with the Discussing hypoth
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> Yes the UK is This isn't adjusted by immigrant education/background though? e.g. in the UK a slightly higher proportion of foreign born residents have tertiary degrees, in France it's the opposite (especially if we look
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Is the UK that particularly better than all the countries on the continent? And comparing US/Australia/NZ with Europe in the regard isn't exactly fair (they are much better at controlling and picking who can or can't co
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> was designed as a multi-user system from the start, so access controls and permissions were there from the start. Right and Windows NT wasn't? Obviously it supported all of those things from the very beginning (possibly even in a
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> There’s a reason Windows users Yes, average Windows users are significantly less tech literate due to obvious reasons and there are way more of them. This create a very lucrative market. How is desktop Linux somehow inherently particul
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> Likewise, no one should expect to beat the market, even though many will in practice. My only point is only that not every investor is rolling the same dice. It's just that it is effectively impossible to every verify whether you
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> You’re being pedantic in all the wrong ways. No, I simply disagree with the whole premise, at least to a limited extent. > All of the available evidence shows that publicly-available actively-managed funds are essentially playing t

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