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Thread ID: 141568	2016-01-13 11:48:00	Materialism	Mirddes (10)	PC World Chat

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1414404	2016-01-14 01:03:00	Unless you wrote the original you really should at least mention it's a quote. - Doctor Asky points to whomever cites my source; that is, find where I found it. 100 points if its bevy121	Mirddes (10)
1414405	2016-01-14 02:14:00	I want some of what ever it is, Mirddes is on :) Me too. :punk	B.M. (505)
1414406	2016-01-18 20:08:00	Kind of on a similar line of thought, when I woke this morning I was daydreaming about the less desirable aspects of capitalism. How some people have billions, which is ultimately billions more than they can actually use or need, while others are deep in debt. The world is slowly being sold up and owned by a tiny number of individuals. If they don't gain our cash through direct trade with their businesses, then they get our cash through being the people we owe our debt repayments to. Even if we don't personally have debts, there's still the govt level debts, and the local council debts which still mean these titans of wealth essentially own half the city. A silly idea started to gel in my mind - to eliminate hoarding of wealth, have a unit of wealth that degrades if not spent withing a certain time. And has to be spent within the NZ economy. Spending or transferring these units outside the NZ economy would not serve to slow their degradation. At the absurd end of this daydream was to imagine a loaf of Central Bank bread (or something similar) be the notional token for any sums over $1000. It only holds value until molds start to show. Then it becomes increasingly worthless as ecah moldy slice gets discarded. So it's not a bread for eating, it's a money token that must be used, not horded. Anybody wanting to swap an old loaf for a new loaf pays a tax on the process (ie a hording penalty). Imagine the wider consequence on how much things would cost, and how much people would want to earn, and save. Earning more than you actually need in a week would be pointless, so placing high prices on items (goods, services) would also be pointless.	Paul.Cov (425)
1414407	2016-01-18 21:30:00	..........latest research, published on Monday, just 62 individuals now have the equivalent combined wealth of the world’s poorest 50% – that’s 3.6 billion people www.buzzfeed.com posted on Jan. 18, 2016	bevy121 (117)
1414408	2016-01-18 21:55:00	I want some of what ever it is, Mirddes is on :) +1 for me. Although I feel it might need to be a script from a Doctor...	lordnoddy (3645)
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