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Personally I'm thinking Islam (sans its ban on charging interest) is the religion most in-line w/ free market and voluntaryist values. For one thing, they use real money . Also, markets in the Islamic world were some of the freest in history. They didn't see the problems which arose in Europe...
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Is it more moral to use gold and silver as money than it is to use paper? I believe fiat currency is immoral and anti-philosophical. How would you make a moral case for gold as opposed to an efficiency case?
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I've been wondering for some time now why people don't currently use gold, silver, platinum, bananas, or whatever as a medium for exchange instead of dollars, euros, yen, etc. Are there laws in place forcing people to trade in dollars? There are plenty of other things available that could be...