This is why you don't let children choose their gender
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This is not a direct address of anything I said, nor do I have any idea why you think this is true. I'm not sure what I said that angered you, but it isn't helpful to a reasonable conversation.
Marbles have real value. How are you not getting it? Marbles are a natural currency because of their intrinsic value. They are pretty, you can use them to play games. You can roll them around which is fun and teaches people about physics (exploration of natural phenomena). Some are prettier than others. All of those things are real effects; real value, distinct from their use as a currency.
That is because no one needed to make those demands for you to use marbles because they had real value.
You obviously have not studied monetary history. Do a deep dive. You will find corroboration for all of my statements. Currency only exists for two reasons, intrinsic value, or fiat (demands from authority). Period. All you have to do is look and you will find the evidence, it's literally everywhere. Suggesting such a statement is "laughably crazy" is... I don't want to say "ignorant beyond reason," because that's rude, so I'll just say I don't think you've actually put any study into this at all.
Do you read the things that you write? That is exactly what you have been saying the whole time. Usefulness is your measure of value. If I sound angry to you, your intent must have been to attempt to elicit a reaction out of me. I am amused by you, and I am figuring out how your mind works. Marbles were just the thing we had access to. We could have just as easily used dirt, which has uses. It can fill holes, you can build with it. It is too abundant to use for trade though. We could have used sticks, which we could play with and build with. They are too abundant to use for trade. I just gave you a direct example of children creating a currency without being demanded to. I believe you are so blinded by what you consider to be the only way to think about this issue, that you are refusing to accept any other information. THAT is what I consider brainwashed.
I am completely accepting your information. I am then giving direct address and argument against it. You are replying with red herrings and straw man arguments.
For example, yes, sticks and dirt can be useful but are not useful for currency. I agree. But you are assuming in this response that I am suggesting that usefulness is the only quality required for a currency that is used based on real value. I never said that. I only said it was a necessary quality.
Other qualities for a reasonable currency would be portability, durability, and rarity/desirability (it is easier to trade for it than go outside and pick it up).
Interestingly, both marbles and shells fit all four criteria.
I was addressing the second part of the statement:
when I said:
I should have been more clear. That was my bad.
If I understand correctly, the premise of your argument is that fiat currency is a scam created by a group of elite people to gain control. I agree with that.
Furthermore, I believe the conclusion you are drawing based on that premise is that the boy in the video made the correct choice because he understands the Oreos have intrinsic value and that the fiat currency sitting next to them does not. I do not agree with that reasoning as to WHY the boy made the choice.
Where I take issue with your slew of assertions is the one specifically about how most everyone is brainwashed in to using fiat currency. You speak as though you have broken free from the matrix and are here to enlighten the world with your revelation. The silent majority want something better, but nobody has offered up an alternative that would avoid a collapse of the system AND is not basically fiat currency with a fresh coat of paint (i.e. Bitcoin).
The boy made the choice based purely on what he saw as useful. That is pretty much how all choices are made, they are "what is most useful to me right now or in the future."
Money was not useful to him because he doesn't understand that other people will accept it for toys, or Oreos. It doesn't seem to have any usefulness when looking at it. Any alien (assuming a compatible biology), or person from an ancient era, who had no idea of how our money system worked, would also almost certainly choose the Oreos.
Until you have been brainwashed to believe it has usefulness, there is no obvious reason, by looking at Federal Reserve notes, to think it does. It requires that brainwashing, by the system, or agents of the system (usually unwitting parents who are themselves brainwashed) in order to "understand its value".
I understand how it was constructed, and in that way I do have some level of "breaking free," though I am still stuck inside of it, so not really. However, understanding how it is constructed is kinda a big deal. The way out is if everyone understands that information, so yes, I wish to share that information with everyone.
I'm not just speaking out of my ass here. I've done tremendous amounts of research into this. If you click on the link above, I show quite clearly how there is a single corporation in the world, and a single body of people that run it. It is a comprehensive report of my investigation, I invite you to read it. I haven't yet gotten to the monetary system in that report, though I have written most of it. That section won't be released for a little bit, because I am doing it in sections, and the section on banking, money, and taxes is the second to the last (ninth out of ten). I am currently finishing up the next part (section 6), which elaborates how the school, medical, and science systems were constructed, who constructed them (the same people that created and run the single corporation) and the frauds contained within them to create false beliefs. Hopefully that section will come out soon. I'm really close to done.
That is not entirely true. A system can easily be created if people have knowledge of the system as it currently exists and the frauds contained within. For an example of such a system, if there were not fiat currency (demanded through taxation), and numerous natural currencies were used in a pseudo-barter system, then a free market could exist. I suggest a truly free market is the only possible solution, coupled with an understanding of the frauds that have been perpetrated previously.
What would such a free market "pseudo-barter" system look like? It could look something like all stocks being tied to NFTs and all the different stocks used as currency (intermediary of exchange). Numerous metals (not just gold or silver) or precious stones, etc. could also be used as easy exchange if NFTs were tied directly to specific quantities of the metals or the stones themselves, held in easily accessible vaults. Art, land, collectibles, or other persistent assets can also be tied to NFTs. Then exchanges for all goods could be handled by using these multiple useful real assets that are tied to NFTs in a decentralized NFT market place.
Of course making a case for why this would be advantageous requires tremendous understanding of the current system, and how it was created. I'm working on getting that information out there in a formal way that is sufficiently comprehensive (not random debates without evidence on GAW). Others are working on it. I think one of the main purposes of the GA is exactly to show that information, so that people will be willing to adopt such a decentralized free market, based on NFT technology.