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Re:SoftBank Takes $4B Stake in Nvidia by jonbarker on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @07:44PM (#14414314)
In order to understand what real capitalism is we'd have to understand where money came from, and even that is up for debate. Was it inefficient bartering of primitive people? (As it turns out, maybe not). Was it financiers of conquistadors? Possibly.
Re:SoftBank Takes $4B Stake in Nvidia by Godel_unicode on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:06AM (#14415578)
I believe you're being downvoted because the prevailing wisdom is that currency was created to allow specialization and portable stores of value.
Re:SoftBank Takes $4B Stake in Nvidia by jonbarker on Monday May 29, 2017 @03:55PM (#14441082)
This is similar to the argument for the creation of money as a more efficient replacement of barter systems.