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by starkd 4y ago
Yes, the barter system damages any liquidity. You have to cease thinking in terms of any standard of value. Everything is this-for-that. Very hard to do on a large scale. I think the very concept of money would have to collapse.
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by starkd 4y ago
No offense intended, but what this is is a failure of imagination. You assume conditions of a liberal democracy where people engaging in commerce without prejudice. That is still the case most of the time. But suppose you speak out publi
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There is also something very pleasant about the feeling of cash. It establishes a permanence and a respect for the currency that has to figure into the psychology of money.
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by starkd 4y ago
I'd settle for something that preserves 3rd party anonymous transactions. Maybe a stable coin could fill the need.
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by starkd 4y ago
Interesting. Your memory obviously is very different, but I remember Dan Akroyd did impressions of him on SNL. A very monotone delivery was very characteristic, only to be outdone by Mondale.
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by starkd 4y ago
That is flat out wrong. There were two bills. The first was in 1981, where the major adjustments were made. However, revisions were made in 1986. Most of a president's agenda is enacted in the first year of their adminstration. htt
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by starkd 4y ago
Good point. Although the Iran revolution was slightly more in the news with the drama about the shah of Iran. He was ill with cancer. Carter would not allow him into US for treatment, so he had to go to Mexico. I think he eventually got
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by starkd 4y ago
Globalization was already well on its way before the Reagan administration. Nixon's visit to China did a lot to change the trade landscape. Even in 1979, it seemed like everything was "made in China". It just became cheape
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Twitter Files #16 Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment(twitter.com)
3 points by starkd 4y ago|0 comments
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by starkd 4y ago
Oh, I don't know. I think he will get plenty of recognition. But he will get it precisely because he doesn't expect it and doesn't ask for it. I did not like his policies, but just the fact that he didn't cash in on th
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by starkd 4y ago
Obama was also quick to use the office of president to cash in. Something I find truly disasteful and only wrecks his credibility, in my view. Carter still lives in a relatively modest home in Georgia where he grew up. This shows a great
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by starkd 4y ago
A lot of it can be attributed to his faith. He has the ability to separate out politics from life. Having government power is not his main objective.
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by starkd 4y ago
There is a lot to complain about him, but it is notable that he was one of the last presidents to not sell himself out after leaving office. He still lives in a relatively modest home in Georgia. Clinton, Gore and Obama all became mega mil
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by starkd 4y ago
>> Big Business, as we know it today, didn't exist during the Carter's Administration That's a good one. I think Big business has been in full control of both parties for most of the 20th century. It's just two si
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by starkd 4y ago
What are you talking about? It was literally the main news item for the second half of his term. Every evening Walter Cronkite began his broadcast with "day xxx of the hostage crisis". The administration was consumed by it. It
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by starkd 4y ago
You are very much in the minority. There were many jokes about Carter at the time. Many comedians did impressions of him. He was not known for his great oratory. He was often referred to as a technocrat.
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by starkd 4y ago
he appointed Volcker towards the end of his term. Inflation had been a growing problem throughout all of the 70s. Read about Nixon's diastrous attempt at price controls. Ford had his WIP ("Whip Inflation Now") campaign. Inf
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by starkd 4y ago
Dept. of Education was mostly a payoff to the unions.
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by starkd 4y ago
It only becomes nuanced when it gets framed by a historical context, when we can look back and explain it all. Carter has mellowed a lot over the years. He was a very young president. At the time, one of the chief complaints about his w
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by starkd 4y ago
>> Reagan kept Volcker on for a short time before firing him That's not how it works. He was appointed with the approval of the senate. The president does not have the ability to fire the Federal Reserve chair.
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by starkd 4y ago
This is not accurate. When Carter appointed Volcker, inflation was a dire problem, having reached upwards of 20%. He hiked the fed fund rates in full point increments, provoking howls of protest because it sent the economy into a full rec
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by starkd 4y ago
Well, it could also be argued that the Iranians only came to the table in the end, because they knew they were not going to get nearly as much from Reagan administration than they would with Carter. Of course, Reagan was all to glad for Ca
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by starkd 4y ago
I often wish we could abolish 24/7 cable news altother. When breaking news happens, we hear the same breaking news headline for the next 24 hours like it is a new event.
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by starkd 4y ago
There were stories of him personally doing scheduling charts for the White House Staff. That probably was an exageration that did not happen that often, but he was a technocrat. He loved getting involved in details. More evidence that en
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by starkd 4y ago
He was a very young president, and since he had an engineering background, he tended to get stuck in the weeds. There are stories of him micro-managing affairs, involving himself in affairs that should have been left to low-level staff. A
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by starkd 4y ago
Interesting you take it upon yourself to speak for all people. Not only that, but actively denying the existence of people who do not like EV's. They do exist, regardless of what you say. I've spoken with such people.
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Cashless society in Switzerland? People to vote on keeping cash forever(euronews.com)
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by starkd 4y ago
Very good novel, but very different. Don Delillo has a very unique writing style. His novels reflect some very keen insights into contemporary life.
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by starkd 4y ago
>> And precisely because they were nuclear accidents, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl left their surroundings contaminated for years, even decades. Perhaps a small point, but the incident at Three Mile Island did not lead contaminate
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by starkd 4y ago
There's a significant percentage of EV owners that regret their purchase. They either sell it and buy and ICE vehicle, or their next purchase is not an EV. (I have talked to such people. They are not hard to find.) Admittedly some

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