41/ to buy things like "bank accounts denominated in American dollars" and "real estate subject to the rule of law".
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42/ slightly, yes, I am. The problem with hard money is that the money supply does not scale in sync with the overall economy. Remember "won't be crucified on a cross of gold" from high school history? that said, I like multiple competing currencies https://twitter.com/relicn0cer/status/1188973952015712258 …
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43/ ok, ALL SORTS of things are getting dragged in and conflated. what's the change in demand for housing? what's the change in supply of labor? what's the USG's actual (not official) policy on illegal aliens? have carpenters upped their productivity? https://twitter.com/Bobthewelder3/status/1188974485191479298 …
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44/ also, any time I see statistics, I want to know WHAT DO THEY REALLY MEAN. In that graph that
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45/ there's some truth here, but also there's explicit PRC industrial policy, US policy (commoditizing compliments of our speciality which is high tech white collar products, and which crushes blue collar workers), also aspects of >>> https://twitter.com/Bobthewelder3/status/1188975865817899013 …
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46/ "well, just bc Blue Collar Jim wants to earn $25/hr making Snap On wrenches is no reason to forbid
@MorlockP from buying a $1 good-enough Chinese wrench" and also, of course, automation I wonder if the construction wages are falling bc of prefab etc3 replies 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
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47/ ok, fine, but neither one of these is topics that I chose to defend / am defending https://twitter.com/Bobthewelder3/status/1188976318345560065 …
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48/ well, sure One can't defend the use of copper in electric wiring without, at 5 removes, getting dragged into a debate about three toed sloths impacted by the train lines that carry workers to the factory that makes wire drawing machines https://twitter.com/Bobthewelder3/status/1188976671975755778 …
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49/ but just because all things tie together does not mean that when I set out a thesis that I am willing to defend ("fiat currency is actually currency") that I am signing up to debate and/or defend every single topic in the field of economics.
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