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Re:The Unwinding of the Asian Currency Crisis by davidw on Monday September 24, 2007 @03:48AM (#58791)
A coup... a violent overthrow of the government. Do you think that would help the value of the dollar any? People would fight tooth and nail to sell them at whatever they could get.

Please, leave the reddit talk on reddit.

Re:The Unwinding of the Asian Currency Crisis by rms on Monday September 24, 2007 @04:38AM (#58813)
Let's just start assuming that whenever I make a ridiculous, extremist statement that you think is insane that I am being extremist to make a particular point.

A violent revolution would certainly be bad for the dollar. But if we were somehow able to bloodlessly kick out all the evil sociopaths in the government and replace them with individuals that wanted to help society as a whole, that would be very good for the value of the dollar. Unfortunately, this is impossible because of the overwhelming military firepower of the government and what appears to be an inevitable tendency towards corruption in democratic leadership.