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This should definitely be pushed back against through the proper channels but as it is it’s also a delicious opportunity for some good old fashioned malicious compliance. Teaching about the bible could be a great way to turn people away from the religions based on it.
Also obligatory George Carlin on the ten commandments. Maybe this video can be shown in schools as a teaching aid to put the 10 commandments in a modern contex.
Lead supposedly does not have an unpleasant taste, unlike other poisons and heavy metals. Combine it with some high-fructose corn syrup and you have a delicious path to heavy metal poisoning!
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They’ll get it back. Dips are only ever temporary and markets always go up, over time. This will be true forever, until the heat death of the universe.
You cant add another 0 to bitcoin unless you figure out how to convince more than 51% of miners to do it, the majority of users, and not collapse the price at the same time.
An electronic system it’s easier to manipulate and it’s infinite, so if you thought capitalism will fall like Marx said, you are pretty wrong nowadays, capitalism it’s virtually infinite.
An electronic system it’s easier to manipulate and it’s infinite
But Bitcoin isn’t infinite.
How exactly are you going to control the market to the point that you can infinitly manipulate it because it’s electronic?
Our fiat system is, it can be inflated as much as they want. Someone just presses a button on a machine and bam, there’s another billion dollars in circulation.
Edit: I saw your edit late. Do pray tell how you can make Bitcoin easily be $560,000 USD because it’s electronic.
Bitcoin isn’t infinite but Bitcoin value is, if you control the market of Bitcoin(you have a lot of it) you can control the offer and demand of it selling or buying big amounts, that way you can add or quit 0 WO having to modify the amount of bitcoins on the market. As it is an infinite divisible currency you can always buy or sell fractions or units of it, so it doesn’t matter how much Bitcoins are out there the important thing it’s the value.
Well, your claim is because it’s electronic nothing is stopping adding a 0.
If you owned 100% of something, you can demand any price you want, but it doesn’t mean people will be willing to buy it at the price, and if has exactly nothing to do with being electronic.
Whales can throw their weight around to try and manipulate the price, but they ain’t making it 560,000 USD or 5,600 USD at a whim. If they could they would.
Capitalism has been with us since basically the beginning of humans if you think about it. The odds of it dying is about the same as you winning the powerball lottery 6 times in a row.
If you consider capitalism to be exploiting labor for profit, sure. If you consider it the relatively precise description advanced in the 17th century onward, no.
Agreed, capitalism, in it’s textbook definition form only started existing around the industrial revolution when it succeded the mercantilist status quo.
Exploiting labour for profit can happen in any economic system, in practice.
I think capitalism’s resilience has surprised a lot of people. Although, maybe it shouldn’t have. As long as capitalism is able to make some people unfathomably wealthy, there’s no reason to believe it’s going anywhere.
I suppose it will have to stop growing eventually, but who knows when that will be. I don’t think anyone knows where the limits to growth are. By many estimates we are already exceeding some ecological boundaries, significantly, in some cases, yet growth continues more or less unabated. I don’t expect I’ll see an end to growth in my lifetime.
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