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by Hermit » Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:32 am
Brian Peacock wrote:laklak wrote:It's all been downhill since we went off the gold standard. Fucking fiat currency, gonna be the death of us all.
Fuck, it's all been down hill since gold replaced goats and cabbages.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
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by Brian Peacock » Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:33 am
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by pErvinalia » Wed Jan 24, 2018 1:51 pm
Dutch inequality is the best inequality.
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by Scot Dutchy » Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:01 pm
Well on the 20% ratio we are the lowest in the world.
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by rainbow » Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:14 pm
Brian Peacock wrote:laklak wrote:It's all been downhill since we went off the gold standard. Fucking fiat currency, gonna be the death of us all.
Fuck, it's all been down hill since gold replaced goats and cabbages.
We in Africa still have a goat and some cabbages, but most of the gold has been taken.
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by cronus » Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:20 pm
rainbow wrote:Brian Peacock wrote:laklak wrote:It's all been downhill since we went off the gold standard. Fucking fiat currency, gonna be the death of us all.
Fuck, it's all been down hill since gold replaced goats and cabbages.
We in Africa still have a goat and some cabbages, but most of the gold has been taken.
Tell me about it...
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by Alan B » Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:56 pm
The overall 'richness' of the financial cake is directly proportional to the wealth creators. However there are a few psychopathic greedy bastards who are adept at moving this 'richness' into their own slice of the cake without actually doing any creating.
Vive la revolution, or something...
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by Tyrannical » Wed Jan 24, 2018 3:31 pm
US Millionaires that voted for Hillary..... None of course !
Socialist millionaire? Oxymoron much !
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by cronus » Wed Jan 24, 2018 4:42 pm
Tyrannical wrote:US Millionaires that voted for Hillary..... None of course !
Socialist millionaire? Oxymoron much !
Hilary and Trump are like two peas in a pod a few years ago. Pence started out as slightly more communist than Castro. Imaginary factions. The 1% is contiguous and utterly corrupted. Same as here.
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by pErvinalia » Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:29 am
Tyrannical wrote:US Millionaires that voted for Hillary..... None of course !
Socialist millionaire? Oxymoron much !
Wut?
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