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    1 year ago

    Yeah? What should back the currency? What would have happened to the dollar if it was still pegged to gold? What is the difference between an artificially scarce natural resource and a currency backed by a superpower?

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        1 year ago

        That’s exactly my point. Gold shills sit around and wax on about how it’s a cure-all and how the gold standard was better blah blah without understanding the basic reasons why it had to go.