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Re:Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled O... by anonymoushn on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @03:20PM (#7260764)
Being legal tender means a group of thugs who regularly rob me accept this currency but not others. If we must tolerate being regularly robbed by thugs, this is a desirable feature in a currency, but it would be better to not be robbed by thugs at all.
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Re:Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled O... by hapless on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @06:18PM (#7261389)
You heard it here, first, folks.

A citizen being asked to pay his legal due in taxes is exactly the same as being repeatedly robbed by thugs.

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Re:Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled O... by krapp on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @06:26PM (#7261400)
>You heard it here, first, folks.

Something something monopoly on violence.

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