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Re:The Demoralization is just Beginning by lxgr on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @11:04PM (#43262627)
The gold standard didn't fail: Fiat money just completely obliterated it with its success.

Being able to issue fiat money is a feature of high trust governments and societies, not a bug, and people yearning back to needing a gold standard scare me, because that inevitably implies dismantling that trust to get there.

Re:The Demoralization is just Beginning by avgd on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:09AM (#43264092)
>because that inevitably implies dismantling that trust to get there.

There is nothing to dismantle because it's already gone.

The society that elected Donald Trump on his current program is an exceedingly low trust society. The whole point backed by DOGE is that you can't trust government and must reduce it to the most basic, barebones function. A lot of the current silicon valley elite fell prey to the nonsense preached by people like Curtis Yarvin who preach forms of anarcho-capitalism and despise democracy.

The United States of America are no more.