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by sbenitoj 8y ago
So what form of govt do you believe solves the problem?
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Sounds like an argument that the colonies should’ve been left intact rather than destroyed as a result of interna politics in the colonizing country. In any case, why are they still dangerous places now? It’s been quite awhile, and places l
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Your claim is that with more economic resources these places would’ve been peaceful, civilized societies post-colonialism?
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
My claim was in response to rosser's claim about "victims of colonialism" -- no doubt there were plenty, but there have been many, many more victims of poor government (and counting) in those countries (again, see Egypt and S
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Yeah, the USSR produced some great living conditions where people could thrive and reach their creative potential.
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Um, WAY more people have died and been assaulted in former colonies than died or were assaulted during colonial rule (see Egypt and South Africa). The ethics of colonization can be debated, I’m certainly not an advocate of it, but the safet
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Yep! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Fair’s fair — I’m not trying to ignore what you’re saying, I just don’t think it’s particularly important. Regarding buying shares of an ETF like GLD, I have my concerns regarding the ETF actually holding what they claim to hold — so I beli
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Why is inflation (the government printing money) legal but me counterfeiting $100 bills and passing them off a legit illegal and considered theft?
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Where does the value of newly printed money come from — is it a free lunch (in which case, why not print quadrillions and make everyone a millionaire) or does the value come from savers (in which case it’s stolen from them by debasing the v
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
“Why are you trying to force everyone to invest in gold for some reason, instead of whatever they want, through a neutral medium of exchange?” We are working with wildly different definitions of “forcing” — the market (millions of people ac
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
It’s almost like members of the government are above the law...
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
My point is that it is NOT legal to circulate claims to gold in storage as money, that’s why it doesn’t exist. GLD is not the same as a gold backed currency because you cannot use GLD as money in everyday transactions, it is literally illeg
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
I don’t think you fundamentally understand what I’m saying, fiat money steals from savers (otherwise where does the value of the new money that’s printed come from? There’s no free lunch.) and the boom/bust cycle is greatly exacerbated
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
You’re defining risky from your perspective, just because YOU don’t perceive an asset designed to keep pace with inflation as risky doesn’t mean it’s not and it also doesn’t mean those investors wouldn’t prefer to keep it in cash. If being
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
“It inflates away debts, too, in that the principal always decreases in value in constant dollars.” Need I mention that the US Govt is the biggest debtor in the world? They have a massive incentive to inflate away their debt — they’re not d
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Yes — increasing the supply of money decreases the purchasing power over time of all other dollars in existence and simultaneously encourages people to make risky investments to avoid the value of their money from decreasing.
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
It’s not a coincidence — you use “we” because you’re a progressive and progressives view themselves as part of the government. Conservatives use “they” because they (rightly) understand they’re NOT in power.
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Rich people don’t just put their money in a vault and let it inflate into oblivion — they spend it or they invest it, both create jobs.
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Fair point that my comment is off topic, I’ve been rightly downvoted and flagged for it : ( But I’ll respond to your comment in hopes that it might pique the interest of some sensible non-commenting lurker, and if it’s my lucky day perhaps
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Glad to hear someone knows me so well
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Pshhh this is the internet, which is all about side arguments with random people! Small sample sizes but the fact that most went into complete remission is worthy of consideration https://chriskresser.com/aip-for-ibd-the-pal
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Wow, I find it interesting that you choose to stop debating the moment I ask a simple question about why you wouldn't consider carnivory. Your blog name really is appropriate, you are quite salty! You believe that nutrition is an &quot
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
I think we’re splitting hairs here, but words matters, so I went ahead and changed the wording to make it clear what I’m saying. My whole point is that modern diets are broken, lots of people are healing autoimmune conditions with therapeut
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Who said I made a medical recommendation? Do you feel it’s a scientific approach to NOT test out something before concluding it doesn’t work? I’m not a doctor and don’t play one on the Internet but everyone can think and test out things for
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Fair point on the tone, I added an updated edit to reflect this. Most people’s diets ARE broken though, even 50 years ago we didn’t have hardly the level of autoimmune disease that we have today. The standard medical approach to chronic&#x2
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
EDIT 2: Let me re-phrase my comment as follows — I highly recommend you explore a therapeutic diet such as carnivore which has helped many people heal issues such as Crohn’s. Here’s an updated link worth exploring — http://meathe
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Fix your diet and your symptoms will greatly improved, you won’t find the right advice among typical doctors either. Check this guy out — https://www.instagram.com/p/BuJkJILA_8I/utm_source=ig_share_... EDIT: If yo
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
It was only loosely linked to gold even at that point, fractional reserve banking has been going on for a long, long time!
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Why should debt support an economy? Without such massive inflation people wouldn’t need to take on much debt to make large purchases such as cars/houses because the prices of cars/houses would be much, much lower. It only makes se

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