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Phobeste
Apr 9, 2006

never, like, count out Touchdown Tom, man

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I think you have to have a lot of faith in the assumption that technology solves more problems than it creates.

Expanding on this, this whole thing seems like it's an attempt to do two things: 1) force rich people to actually spend money 2) codify social transactions in a money system run by a computer. The first one is something that can be accomplished just fine in real currency instead of moon units, it's a social problem that it's not. If we upped capital gains and death taxes you'd see many of these problems go away while being in plain ol USD. As for the second problem that's just sort of normal for you, I guess. The three latter types of payments are either stupid attempts to force names on things or you doing a very bad job describing what they mean. Every economic transaction is already an exchange of currency for goods. Sometimes the goods are non obvious and not physical and this is not a bug it's just how humans work, trying to squash it won't happen.

fake edit: also you're so so so bad at writing "science" for laypeople to understand. You just namedrop terms that you think are cool-sounding and link to Wikipedia when people call you on it.

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