Re:The Unwinding of the Asian Currency Crisis
by rms on Monday September 24, 2007 @04:38AM
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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.
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.