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Re:Why are we still working this hard? by andai on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:08PM (#50459370)
Money used to be based on a beautiful thing (positive value), and now it's based on debt (negative value). I'm no economist, but that seems self-evidently bad to me.
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Re:Why are we still working this hard? by p_l on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:26PM (#50472809)
The former is not really true - it was still really debt based, use of precious metals is more a very early anti-counterfeiting trick and a way to do emergency exchange of currencies if you can melt the coins and haggle on raw metal.

It is full of negatives otherwise, just romanticised

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