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Originally posted by TribeOfManyColours
Originally posted by nightbringr
reply to post by TribeOfManyColours
Untrue. Money used as a currency (preferably backed by a real commodity such as gold), allows MUCH greater efficiency in the marketplace.
Imagine if a business had to pay its employees in food, clothing, or other commodities (beaver pelts). Where would they store these all? Perhaps it would be easier to give out food stamps to redeem at a central location, but then in a sense would those stamps not be "money"?
It creates a logistical nightmare in todays day and age. If you want to go back to the days of trading, fine. Just dont expect to live any kind of life comparable to what we currently have. Many people would say they want that, but when they have to give up their Starbucks, BMWs, and big screen TVs, they would think twice.
What is life about?
Food and energy supply is primary, that is what we should keep running.
The rest can do what their highest excitement is. Just share, live and create in peace
You need nothing to live happy.
If you want to use currency, you know you create inequality. Billionaires and homeless people.
Life is only about experience. Today in this money based world, everybody runs in the circle of paying bills after bills. That is occupation of our mindedit on 15-6-2011 by TribeOfManyColours because: (no reason given)
“Everybody in Greece knows that all the money they take, all these billions they go to derivatives, securities of the banks, and they go to the bonds. They don’t come to the real economy of Greece. All the money we take is in order to pay high interest rates. This is robbery. And the problem for the now is that people know that,” Chrysostomidis said.
Originally posted by TribeOfManyColours
Originally posted by cerebralassassins
Originally posted by TribeOfManyColours
reply to post by cerebralassassins
I am coming to Greece, get out of my way
Yeah you should, .the weather is super cool, oh yeah..ill be heading for Ios, and Mykonos, lets face it, since im over here for business i can always slip away for a quick swim, i mean its not as if my girlfriend is going to find out right...that is unless you are her and i simply blew myself out of ocean...
Thats right, I am her. I knew you were like that... Ive bin stalking you along time. Now I now you true colours... COME HOME RIGHT NOW
That quick swim could give you a great fresh new idea of your business. (As long as your eyes are not occupied)
Well if the SHTF really arrives, It ain't such a bad idea to go to Greece.
Hope you don't loose another 100k
Originally posted by Painterz
What's the realistic alternative for Greece though?
Anarchy?
A new government that defaults on their debts? That leaves them in more or less the same place, they won't have the debts, but they still have massive deficit spending, and having defaulted, nobody in the world is going to lend them any more money ever.
It's just really hard to see where the country can go from here.
Originally posted by foreshadower99
I suggest that it's only the start of something bigger which will eventually spread
across europe and finally to the US. The economic system in which the countrys are
held together is falling apart, it cannot continue to forever feed it's self without inflation
threating to break it apart. The day banks became over powered that was the start of
world wide economic collapse allthough the BRIC won't be affected as much.
Nothing to be suprised about when everything has been expected for the last hundreds of years.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by TribeOfManyColours
It's what they are rioting for that is the problem. They are demanding money that does not exist because they spent it all on handouts. The riots there are not for freedom or rights, they are for more candy. Hard to empathize with that. This is always the end result of to much government. Spoiled brats who want, want, want but never give.
This is what a Progressive government gives it's people. It has always been that way.
Germany insists all of EU must pay for Greece bailout
Britain's fierce resistance tested as governments argue over how to structure second Greek rescue package