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The easy way out

The easy way out

Posted Nov 6, 2012 21:57 UTC (Tue) by Rudd-O (subscriber, #61155)
In reply to: The easy way out by nix
Parent article: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired)

> If you think your governments are so corrupt that they cannot be trusted to reliably maintain a stable money supply, then gold (or some other hard-to-control store of exchange value) is preferable to fiat money.

Well, since these institutions have caused the democide of a quarter billion human beings starved or murdered by people acting under the delusion of "governments", excluding wars, only in the 20th century...

... I am a bit wary of trusting them to "maintain a stable money supply".

It's understandable, right?


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