I am a proponent of a fiat money system. It has proven to be more reacitve to changes in the market whereas the gold standard runs the risk of providing a way for other countries to mine out our gold by manipulating the market. Barter is a totally failed system of wealth storage because there is no good way to measure the utility between goods and services. Ideally you could imagine exchanges that were equitable for all parties in volved, but hey, when people are involved there will always be motivation to maximize the benifit to self. It is just as easy to imagine a fiat currency that was controlled such that people maintained their buying power and there wasn't a constant vacuum at the top 1% that kept pulling money toward it, but that is also just a dream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money
I feel that the system we have now is not great but it happens to be better than the ones that came before.
I would like to see the lower two rungs on maslow's hierarchy of needs handled publicly (Well, except for the sex part, that shouldn't even be part of the lowest rung in my opinion) so that anybody that didn't want to work could do so and not die. In my vision the default existence for people 18 and over would be a government provided place to live, medical, and a food card. Yes, even for lazy people and dumb people. I am Atlas and I plan to shoulder the burden of those less motivated, or capable than me. The idea is that instead of a pissed off populace working because they have too, there would be a populace enabled to bargain with companies to obtain a fair wage and if they didn't like it they could leave without the fear of losing their ability to live.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_...y_of_needs
So yeah, socialism for needs, free markets for all the other crap we don't need but want with a burning desire that could almost be equated with need.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money
I feel that the system we have now is not great but it happens to be better than the ones that came before.
I would like to see the lower two rungs on maslow's hierarchy of needs handled publicly (Well, except for the sex part, that shouldn't even be part of the lowest rung in my opinion) so that anybody that didn't want to work could do so and not die. In my vision the default existence for people 18 and over would be a government provided place to live, medical, and a food card. Yes, even for lazy people and dumb people. I am Atlas and I plan to shoulder the burden of those less motivated, or capable than me. The idea is that instead of a pissed off populace working because they have too, there would be a populace enabled to bargain with companies to obtain a fair wage and if they didn't like it they could leave without the fear of losing their ability to live.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_...y_of_needs
So yeah, socialism for needs, free markets for all the other crap we don't need but want with a burning desire that could almost be equated with need.
