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Like-Money
By Tom on
2/16/2009 8:35 AM
Have you wondered if printing money is the same as creating money by making a loan? Is money supposed to have intrinsic worth, or is it supposed to be solely a facilitator of trade? And, how explain that a financial system considered to be essential to civilized life has ruined countless farmers, cast families from their homes, plunged nations one after the other into poverty like dominoes? Perhaps it is time to ask of what nature is money. Permit a detour into evolution. The miracle of life emerged slowly until sexual differentiation evolved one fine night upon which evolution sped up with a passion.. Yet in its later, mature, years sex has been taken over by industry and sullied. Return now to money, where a somewhat similar pattern is found. An easily portable substance having value transformed barter into the far more lucrative trade. Yet in its later, mature, years, that easily portable etc has brought out from the human soul limitless evil. Ponder a quality common to sex and money: in both a need was met...
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