/lit/ - Literature

>>20729331
Not that guy but... saying you don't "believe" in something doesn't change the reality of "it". It's true lolbertarians have lobbied for governments (lol) world wide to embrace a new international gold standard for decades... with noting to show for it. It's equally true that lolberts have all of a sudden embraced free floating cryptocurrencies and aren't lobbying for full reserve gold banking as much nowadays. That's all as relevant as saying monopolies axiomatically cannot exist without governments.

>>20729361
>Bitcoin could end banking
The thing is banks provide loans and insurance on deposits... bitcoin as a network can't do that, you can build those services on top of buttcoin but you're reinventing a lot of stuff and at some point it becomes obvious bitcoin isn't necessary to run the higher level stuff and you could do it more profitably without it and it goes the way of monetary gold

>when you misunderstand fundamental aspects of microbiology and think you've discovered mystical forces you can fight UFOs with

>>20197485
No. I was in a "special education" class because I didn't do my work. I don't know if Wiesel was part of the curriculum at any point but I remember not having to read Anne Frank shit in elementary school when normies were forced to

>>19689859
>I own 0.001% shares in dunkin donuts and 0.002% in l'oreal therefor ownership overlaps

>>19654771
>empiricism can be misused by bad actors therefore it's not good

>>19514279
God isn't even a sufficient explanation for everything. Also there's still no good definition of what life "is" to even talk about its various possible states.

>>19420412
It's basically an apologia for Hitler rationalizing pants on head retarded moves. Irving thinks maintaining the British empire was a good idea so of course he's insanely pro-Hitler because Hitler was an Anglophile (and Zionist).

>>19421378
>his version of the holocaust is no more valid than the official one
Which is? What was controversial was he didn't make any reference to it initially. In the 80s he ended up defending Zundel and slowly backed off that.

>>19190070
If a book is bad I just read it faster.

>>18694973
You mean minimize utility? Well in accordance with big brained economists anything someone does is ipso facto an action of rational utility maximization therefor we know making people do otherwise is minimizing utility somewhat... I don't really know of anyone who has attempted to theorize how to absolutely minimize utility a priori but someone has probably tackled the problem

>>18567854
Those aren't "counterfeit receipts", they're legally dollars. A coin with a dollar face value on it, old government silver certificates for those coins and paper dollars are all different things but equally legally useable dollars. If you want to pay a couple thousand dollar tax bill with some old coins worth millions of dollars but with low face values you actually can do it like the retard you are

>>18561074
dude the bible says some stuff and if i touch things first its mine

>>18488591
Have you tried saying something else equally asinine as an answer? Santa? Gravity? Psychic phenomena?

>>18428704
The absolute degree of Austrotard idiocy. The price of gold has little impact on individuals so can move up significantly without impacting people (outside of the small effects on electronics and such) unlike the bulk of commodities people buy.

>Gold has remained the same for 5000 years
No, the real price of gold has fluctuated significantly especially after the influx of gold to Europe after the discovery of the Americas and such.

> meanwhile crypto is just a ponzi
Sure but it may effect the price of gold which is artificially inflated by outdated ideas and conspicuous consumption of it could decrease over time as zoomers demand shift to other luxuries

>used to think Also Sprach Zarathustra was the sequel to Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>18104699
I literally have. The central thesis is Poland was at fault and the average Pole was more anti-Semitic than Hitler anyhow

>>18073605
>actually it was never meant to describe real-world economies

>>17994778
Try to explain such an epic public psychiatric failure using lobster mans ideas

>>17630975
>kantian apriorism
>>17631021
>deducing rules from his axioms
>>17631064
>deductive, a priori

>>17530109
> business related papers
>psychology
Can you get anymore pseudo-academic? Maybe look into ESP or astrology

>>17448394

>well this random schizo says that x = y
>x is related to y, therefore if you dislike x you hate y. checkmate liberals.

>>17386668
>He puts forth a lot of profound ideas in that book
That's exactly what a midwit would say

>>17364045
>It's pretty clear.
Is it?

>>17329413
>being to retarded to read primary academic works on archeology so read pop polemics to seem like you know things you don't

>>16713777
>dramatizing it