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SamuelAdams | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Book arrives Friday. 

Looking forward to reading it.

I grew up in an affluent community, and it never ceases to amaze me how smart & wealthy people often lack moral and intellectual courage. They often treat their weird exclusionary ideas as some sort of merit badge that separates them from the plebeians. The more anti human the higher the status.
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Rune Østgård | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
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Your last sentence - I hope it changes totally if we get a sound monetary system.
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SamuelAdams | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Here is an article I wrote on the topic. Though it’s a topic you are highly educated on, hopefully it causes the reader to look at the issue of sound money from a slightly different angle. 

https://www.samuelsadams.com/ssa/fixthemoney
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Rune Østgård | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Really enjoyed your article, I think we share many of the same ideas
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Chris | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Can you give some examples of thier lack of moral and intellectual courage?
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SamuelAdams | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 An inability to see past their paycheck. 

Meaning that anything that interrupts the flow of status or income is explained away with faux wisdom and reason. 

Saying the vaccine is 100% effective is a great example. 

Not agreeing with this statement meant interruptions to contracts and brought scorn from the corporate collective.
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Chris | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Is it a lack of courage, or simply a lack of critical thinking ability altogether? When fear (warranted or not) is involved, critical thinking is often pushed aside by survival instinct.

I think that critical thinking ability has declined in general though. And I blame social media algorithms for it. It has caused us to be bombarded with content designed to elicit engagement in the shortest time possible, obfuscating the need for critical thinking when it's needed most.
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SamuelAdams | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Great thought. 

The human experience can not so easily be put into separate buckets. It is all so intertwined. An abundance of one can often compensate for a degree of lack in the other. 

But yes, fear is certainly the highest axiom. The Fear of loss is why the affluent compliment the garments of the naked emperor. 

To those who the system prefers, saying the obvious truth gains nothing but costs everything. Fiat gonna Fiat.