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[quote user="limitgov"] And once Spain goes down, the euro will be in worse shape, which will hopefully boost the dollar. [/quote] Euro is lost cause IMO, but there's no guarantee that people will flock to dollar. In fact I hope they will flock to something more tangible and less prone to inflation and stop giving any sort of credibility
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Attacking gold standard is really easy. It's just another government program after all.
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[quote user="Clayton"] In fact, the State is not an equalizer. If it were, North Korea would be the most equal place on Earth. [/quote] State is great at making everyone equally dirt poor. North Korea in this sense is the most equal place on Earth :p
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Private property is a social construct. What is and what isnt property is up to the people to decide. It is whatever people find reasonable with edge cases investigated under court. In principle it wouldnt be any different under ancap system than it is today.
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Basic question: is this "gold standard" voluntary or imposed by government? If it is the latter then it is not sustainable and will not work.
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[quote user="Anenome"] [quote user="boniek"] [quote user="Anenome"] The second you make a certificate, you have the inflation problem yet again.[/quote] You dont unless its forcibly imposed monopoly provider of certificates.[/quote] Which it inevitably is in the modern world.[/quote] That sadly seems true. [quote user="Anenome"
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[quote user="Anenome"] [quote user="Andrew Cain"] Is it a commodity? No. Then it will never be a money. [/quote] The second you make a certificate, you have the inflation problem yet again. [/quote] You dont unless its forcibly imposed monopoly provider of certificates. In order for me to trust you dont debase your certificates you
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What if foreign policy of US makes some people dangerous to life and/or property of others? Anarcho-capitalism is just relatively better (loosely speaking) than statism not a perfect nirvana.
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I am consequentialist austro-ancap. Consequentialist arguments are all about simple facts and simple logic (as simple as austrian economics anyway). I see no need and no value in deontologist arguments over consequentialist arguments mostly because they are a lot harder to follow with lots of what seems to me like logic holes, jumps and arbitrary definitions
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[quote] "Property is a normative idea. An ought idea. Property is whatever the society decides it's ought to be. Our society decided that property is private and unalienable, unless the state decides to redistribute it to the less fortunate." [/quote] I am an ancap and I agree with this quote 100%. I personally think that moral justifications