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Re:Central Bank Digital Currencies Are a Bad Idea by logicchains on Sunday December 27, 2020 @09:13AM (#25551147)
Yes, because the greatest famines of the past 200 years, during the Great Leap Forward and holodomor, were caused by following extremist free market policies, not the opposite.
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Re:Central Bank Digital Currencies Are a Bad Idea by seibelj on Sunday December 27, 2020 @10:10AM (#25551527)
So ignorant that every implementation of socialism / communism, or any economic system that tried to control prices in some systemic way, starved or outright murdered vast amounts of humanity?

I love free societies and you should appreciate that capitalists allow the socialists to discuss revolution freely. Because if and when the socialists take over, I can guarantee they won’t afford the capitalists the same freedom.

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Re:Central Bank Digital Currencies Are a Bad Idea by jahaja on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:20AM (#25552007)
> Because if and when the socialists take over, I can guarantee they won’t afford the capitalists the same freedom.

You should know your enemy better than lazily repeating Cold War rhetoric. 99% of all socialists today are firmly democratic.

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Re:Central Bank Digital Currencies Are a Bad Idea by seibelj on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:35AM (#25552129)
... as we watch the most overtly socialist countries on earth (Cuba, China, Venezuela, North Korea) do exactly the same playbook of thought crime, murder, and torture?
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