EVE General Discussion

I'm not sure I follow you OP. Money is simply a socially agreed upon currency that people can use to exchange for goods and services rather than bartering with their own goods and services. It facilitates trade by allowing parties who want said goods and services from a vendor that doesn't necessarily want your goods or services, if you even have any to trade for.

In any case, your argument is somewhat flawed, and I certainly don't want to sell a cheeseburger to someone and when they get done eating it have the $3.00 I charged them for it to disappear out of my wallet. I would like the opportunity to trade it for something I would like, and that's what happens - the money gets circulated as it passes hands for one good to another.

Furthermore, inflation of whatever currency you are using isn't determined by people still having cash after commodities have been consumed, it doesn't work like that. That money had to be printed somewhere, and that somewhere is probably a government. Inflation and the value of a currency used to be tied directly to how much printed money there is versus how much gold a country has....I'm not quite sure how they do it these days but I want to say it's compared to a countries GDP.

Well, that's a simple backwoods hyper-chicken way of looking at it, it's alot more complicated than that.

I see, you were trolling. Well played, sir. Well played.

As a lover of money, this post greatly offends me.

Excuse me as I go make another billion or so to feel better.

lol no I was being sarcastic, in the current system there is so much debt that it can NEVER be paid, the only reason we have lasted this long is the time lag between the new debt being created to pay of the old debt(with some clever shenanigans thrown in for good measure.) The current system if left to go to its logical conclusion would mean all the money would be in the hands of the lenders. However this and can not go on forever without some serious changes to the masses lifestyles or some form of population reduction.

The outcome of all this basically there will be a ruling class elite controlling(much more than they do now) or the peasants will revolt string up the aforementioned ruling elite and bring with it all the death and chaos that comes with that naturally. Either way it doesn't look pretty however If I can break my shackles the consequences might be worth it.

Important point to be made, what we have now is NOT capitalism its some weird hybrid neo ****. Point in case when the banks failed in the U.K. they should of been allowed to fail so a new system(people) could be put in place. What we have now is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Iceland was bang on the nose here they let capitalism work.

Corporate are owning governments atm, one of the notable signs of fascism is when the corporate and the state come together. In th past it was governments taking over corporates, its just going the other way around atm howver we are not quite there yet...

Gold

Money/Capitalism may be broken, but there is currently no better system. Just cause a system is ****, doesn't mean it's not the best one going. Until some genius finds a working alternative, saying it's broken is ultimately pointless.

Money will exist as long as humans group together and wish to trade with one another. Which form it will take, who knows. There is far too much advantage in the ability to perform indirect trade by the use of the tool we call money.

Deluded Dreamers, Authoritarian Do Gooders and the Self Glorified Social Architects are the problem.

So, real life needs LP stores to act as a sink to counter inflation. Yes?

Q: What is currency paper made of?
A: Currency paper is one-fourth linen and three-fourths cotton.

not nothing, linen and cotton :D