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renato32 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I don't know about that, fiat money allowed for economical growth, also for unfair wars 🙄, but calling it cancer is not fair. However it is nice that Bitcoin exists as an alternative 🤝
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TheGuySwann | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Electronic payments allowed for economic growth. It has absolutely nothing to do with fiat money. It becoming fiat was a side effect of going digital. 

It’s like saying you took medicine to get better but it gave you a migraine, then claiming the migraine made you better.

Counterfeiting cannot, and never has had any economic benefit. It is purely and ONLY fraud. It has exactly the same net effect as stealing.
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renato32 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 not really man, but I don't want to fight, or want to, and I am not going to convince you 🤝
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jasontheoriginal | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 No, gold backed money could have done the same thing without the stealing from the workers and the boom bust cycles.  FIAT is cancer pumped into the veins of society by extremely smart, evil bankers.

You can't have a monetary system that is corruptible or it will be corrupted.  We are living in a capitalis system run on communist rails.  You can't build a sustainable system on top of an unsustainable one.

Cancer is very fair if not nerfed.