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So let it collapse. That's what needs to happen. Then you can re-start the economy based on sound money/policy.

Kid, it's a miracle that large groups of people are able to do anything besides beat the crap out of each other 24/7. Capitalism is what it is (and ha...

It will work as well as printing pictures of food and sending them to starving people (albeit, the financial starvation will be a bit more drawn-out).

You have to keep in mind that all markets are horribly corrupt at present. What's going on now is a joke and pretty much has been getting worse and wo...

Really. Where did you come up with that pearl? For me, this is a spike in one of the most basic of human desires, trying to get something for nothing....

People in power care about one thing and one thing only...can they do business with you! You really think they could care less about all the other non...

Everybody is always arguing for and against something. There are no absolutes in thinking. You want as much freedom as is possible. Don't you?

Who is "they?" Government is rigged in the interests of those who happen to own the process. Only those politicians who have shown that they can be pu...

I'm not great fan of any system, believe me, but relatively unfettered capitalism is better than any realistic alternative. If it were up to me, I wou...

What do you think this country would look like today if there was no New Deal?

To me, politics is a battle of interests, so you have those who wish to bathe in the status quo and those who wish to create a newer status quo they c...

Nobody is forcing anybody to do anything. You can choose a very safe life, e.g., be an accountant, never get married or have kids, don't go anywhere o...

Zero time is the moment of transition existing outside of time.

Time can "exist" for zero seconds just like a container can be empty. You speak of potential, not existence.

It's been a while since I read about the situation there but I do remember that a year or two after the financial crisis peaked, they had written off ...

More people, more complexity. Everybody has differing needs. Look at the approach of an HMO v an individual health care provider. The bigger the group...

The way it used to be is there was no deposit insurance backed by the government. Imagine how careful you would selecting your bank if this was the ca...

That's really old news. What's your point?

There is only one economic system. Socialism is the political process of reallocating the proceeds. And there really is no battle, it's just a matter ...

Kid, you don't understand how banking works (but that's OK because very few people understand finance and banking in the least). The FED could have re...

Agreed.

That's total bullshit. This is what the politicians and bankers were telling everybody. I wonder why?? It is imperative that banks fail! It's how the ...

Thank you. The idea is that you want to simplify processes, that is, individualize them (if possible) because simplification is the antidote for compl...

I know, the problem is that the state cannot do such. It can do things like provide defense or build roads, etc., but it does this at TREMENDOUS costs...

What should have been done is what happened during the 80's S&L debacle where you allow the savings and loans to fail and go through bankruptcy (redis...

I am not sure I follow you.

Yes, someone will ALWAYS have an advantage. You are looking for heaven on Earth. It's simply not possible.

Well, everybody has to put on their big-boy pants and figure it out. And I don't believe the planet has much to worry about. It will rid itself of us ...

I couldn't possible take offence from anything you have said. The point is that society is based on an infinite number of things going on at the same ...

It was the state that caused much of the problem in the first place! You need to go back to 1913 (the origins of the third central bank in the U.S.) a...

I believe you need to be a bit more expansive in your analysis. Seems like you are doing a little cherry-picking here. Attempting to compare the U.S. ...

Even systems are (and need to) change constantly. The problem with social planning is that it cannot predict what changes will take place and therefor...

Why question?

As polarized as politics has become, I am not sure the casual observer from either side would have difficulty coming to this conclusion. Exactly. Just...

Apparently there were 75M people who supported Trump (anyway, who voted for him). Are you assuming that all these people think identically? There are ...

I believe this would be like saying that Democrats are still the party of slavery. Most conservatives I've spoken with are for maximum opportunity for...

Conservatism is about preserving (what works in their minds). Saying that they are on the wrong side of history is denying the success that the U.S. h...

Stop thinking. Start doing.

It's not a matter of right or wrong because this is intuitive, but it should give pause to consider to what is knowable. That's the real question here...

No doubt, most guys seem to suffer in silence. The good news is that you learn to be independent because in America, your are on your own.

There seems to be an inordinate number of young men in their 20's doing little to nothing. Young women, OTOH, appear to have their act together more s...

JP is what he is, a guy with a lot of opinions. You people are brutal. Agree with what you like and disagree with what you don't but at least show som...

Perhaps it might temper the "win at any cost attitude." Maybe not.

I guess he came to same conclusion as most everybody else, nobody cares about such things anymore, so my question to him was more about why he thought...

Of course I am (and so is everybody else), but that's a discussion for another day.... :) I really didn't intend to make this a right-left thing (as t...

I am sure the events of the 20th century will be debated for centuries to come, but I put this out there to draw a parallel to present day events and ...

Once I was chatting with a very bright gentleman who happened to teach sports ethics for several decades at a local university and I posed a similar q...

Perhaps, but I think the average five-six year old is still interested in getting with the program.

Aren't we all.

"Man can endure anything but Meaninglessness" I would suggest that man can endure anything but Reality (which is why we have no access). If man could ...