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I think you mentioned the "fed, or whatever" as enacting monetary policy, but taxes directly control how much money the private sector gets to play with. How exactly could strangecoin ever be used to discharge tax obligations? Is a currency really a currency if you can't pay taxes with it?
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RealityApologist posted:Part of the point of a system like strangecoin is that you wouldn't need corporations as distinct legal entities, since their function would be entirely redundant. Individual agents themselves are capable of forming spontaneous corporate structures simply by engaging in the transactions.
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Mar 31, 2014 22:13
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eXXon posted:Hi, my factory in Taiwan needs 10,000 tons of steel by Monday. Can you spontaneously collect a network of friends to spontaneously facilitate this transaction post-haste?
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Mar 31, 2014 22:22
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Obdicut posted:Or, more libertarianesque: "Yes, it's true that Bill was driving a truck because I was paying him (or whatever the gently caress the cognate of paying is in this stupid system) to do it but since liability doesn't transfer he's solely responsible for that accident."
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Mar 31, 2014 22:31
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So wait... every business is now a pyramid scam? Like I buy a candy bar from the corner store, and because I was the first customer everyone else pays me dividends?
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Mar 31, 2014 22:36
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RealityApologist posted:Right, and Strangecoin provides that kind of shield. Individuals don't assume full responsibility for their transactions; that responsibility is distributed across the network in quantifiable ways. Why do you think worker owned cooperatives are indefensible?
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Mar 31, 2014 22:49
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Slanderer posted:All of this is pretty part of the course Ok, so finally answer: how do you collect taxes, and why would a government ever accept currency that they did not originate?
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Apr 1, 2014 00:31
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RealityApologist posted:I'll have to admit to being a little shocked at the claim that people who aren't understood shouldn't be talking. It's a kind of discursive inhumanity. I'm a pompous intellectual, but the claim that people who don't understand shouldn't be talking is far beyond my tolerance for intellectual elitism. I have the exact opposite sentiment: let people speak whatever and however they can. No one has to listen, but if we have good filters we'll find the good bits worth echoing, and separate that from the noise.
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Apr 1, 2014 00:41
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How high are you right now?
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Apr 1, 2014 00:51
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For the new page: how high are you right now exactly?
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Apr 1, 2014 00:54
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You're dodging the question, how high did you get to think that a theoretical construct that neither describes nor predicts anything nor solves a problem would garner support? For all the "it would model things that are hard to measure" it is modeling something that does not exist.
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Apr 1, 2014 00:59
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How does the strangecoin differentiate between people who receive employment merely because of their relationship with someone in management, and people related to managers that received their position due to merit? Not that I believe employment would function under strangecoin.
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Apr 1, 2014 01:05
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To be fair, Strangecoin could revitalize the synergy of nonlinear social networks and coordinate the gathering of neural network usage information in the 21st century assuming you had an economy without taxes, payrolls, finance, commodity trading, or commerce that also consists only of sole proprietorships liable for every other company they trade with. edit: Seriously though, on a scale of Method Man at the Source awards to 5 alarm fire at the hash factory how stoned are you exactly? Babylon Astronaut fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Apr 1, 2014 09:51
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Salt Fish posted:Can you please clarify how btc is "utterly worthless" as a currency if you can trade it for goods and services?
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Apr 2, 2014 05:16
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So the strangecoin identifies nepotism at the cost of enabling 3 people collaborating to generate infinite funds and we are the morons?
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Doesn't the right to own trendy gadgets impede on the slaves who mine rare earth metals just a little bit? Tell them that losing your iphone is the same as losing an arm. I don't mean to concern troll, but if owning high tech toys is a protected class, then doesn't that mean that you are protecting the wealthy against those who labor to produce the goods?
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