Re: OT: Socialism (WAS: Re: Saving endangered langs (was Re: Extrapolating languages)
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 22, 2003, 20:29 |
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Quoting Rob Haden <magwich78@...>:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:59:00 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
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> >(Then I've got problems with the whole concept of governments _stealing_
> >money - without them, there wouldn't _be_ money [...]
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> I'll just say that in a free market, money is simply the most marketable
> commodity in a society. Traditionally, this has meant gold and/or silver.
I was thinking of money in the sense of "symbolic" money; notes, coins worth
more (or less) than their metal worth, electronic money, and so forth.
Andreas
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