In article <
a2b38e20-e916-4e67-bdbd-6c5c7ac4d612n@googlegroups.com>,
Dan Koren <
dan.koren@gmail.com> wrote:
"Free markets" are pure fiction as long as only governments can
print money. Crypto currencies were imagined to address this
problem.
Crypto currencies were only ever a cynical cash grab by anti-social
people online.
And turning a medium of exchange into a form of wealth was an idiotic
move, that happened long before those people ever got involved, but
I digress....
Of course, "free market" didn't always mean what people mean by it
now -- i.e. a tool to make rich people richer & poor people poorer.
When criticisms of losing the free market began in earnest (in
Europe) in the early 17th century, the "free market" they were
lamenting losing was a place, shortened from the term "free & public
market," and it meant that everyone could be there and that all transactions/prices were public. (It was mostly the emergence of
secret deals that commentators were lamenting.)
Making all transactions public again would be one worthwhile reform.
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