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It is the small things that make up life

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• A reply on Conversation: Taking money out of society.

  Mar 27 2013: trade goods, yo!

• A reply on Conversation: How is money put into the economy? ie how is wealth created?

  Mar 25 2013: Yes, but it was in the times when they could go bankrupt for their stupidity. And they did dime a dozen.

• A comment on Conversation: How is money put into the economy? ie how is wealth created?

  Mar 25 2013: It used to be the role of the central bank to create money, but today it is no longer so. Every commercial bank can, and in fact does, create money in quantities far exceeding their deposits. The result is that there is much much more money circulating in the economy than what the CB create.
  
  To understand the whole process I strongly recommend the book by Jesus Huerta de Soto "Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles".

• A reply on Conversation: Taking money out of society.

  Mar 25 2013: to trade, yo!

• A comment on Conversation: Divorce should be cheap and accessible.

  Mar 22 2013: If you ask me I think that marriage should be as cheap and as accessible as possible. Would that incease the already high divorce rate? Maybe, but chances are that it would have the opposite effect. Such step could bring the responsibility back to marriage i.e. it would no longer be a piece of paper holding everything together but a real promise between two people.
  
  People depend too much on formal documents, signatures, courts, offices and institutions these days. They make life easier but they take away the individual responsibility from the people. At the end of the day, it does not matter what institutions we have but who we really are.
  
  The goal is to have a gun but refrain from using it.

• A reply on Conversation: Is a persons reality, meaning, and purpose determined by their choice of study/job?

  Mar 19 2013: It is best understood in German I am affraid, but its closest translation is "mass fate"

• A comment on Conversation: Is a persons reality, meaning, and purpose determined by their choice of study/job?

  Mar 18 2013: Not at all. Destiny is the privilege of only a few people: those who have a definite individual life line. The lives of most people are so intermingled with others - so little individual - that they can only have a Massenschicksal, which in each particular case is just fate.
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  A comment on Conversation: Should Talent Shows Be Allowed to Do this?

  Mar 18 2013: "That is show business for you. One day you are the most important person in the world, the next day you're some shmo working in the box factory"
  
  /Krusty the Clown/

• A comment on Conversation: What made you smile today?

  Mar 18 2013: The fools who kept their money in Cyprus hehe

• A reply on Conversation: Today we have more technology to acquire knowledge than than anytime in the past, yet we are more ignorant, what is up with that?

  Mar 13 2013: You got it all wrong Pat. You simply ignore the fact that many people who would previously never have been even heard are now everywhere.
  
  The culture of the past was the culture of the elites. The dumb were hidden in their cottages.