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moneytree (37)in #economics • 7 years ago
Monetary System as It Should Be
The financial system of today is designed to help the rich leverage their existing wealth to become richer without enterprising or risking, just by inflating prices of existing…
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moneytree (37)in #liberty • 7 years ago
Money is really stolen before taxation. Libertarians, do you agree?
There is a big discussion about taxes. "Reducing taxes for the 1% when poor children starve is immoral" say some. "No, taxation is theft!" shout the others. However, what is…
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moneytree (37)in #economics • 7 years ago
Silvio Gesell's Freigeld - the idea whose time has come
There are many different ways to explain Silvio Gesell's concepts of the Natural Economic Order. The one I prefer is quite simple - we (and when I say we I mean the global…
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moneytree (37)in #money • 7 years ago
The Story of the 11th Round
This is a link to a story everyone interested in the money system should read: The story of the 11th round illustrates how the introduction of interest in a monetary system…
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moneytree (37)in #economics • 7 years ago
Girl, 5, fined £150 for running homemade lemonade stall
From today's guardian: "A five-year-old girl was left in tears after being fined £150 for running a stall selling cups of homemade lemonade to passersby. The schoolgirl was…
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moneytree (37)in #crypto • 7 years ago
A Thing Satoshi Nakamoto Knew that Venture Capitalists Have Misunderstood
Satoshi Nakamoto has stated the following: “The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to…
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moneytree (37)in #politics • 7 years ago
Political Conservatism: Big or Small State
There is a strong correlation between political freedoms in a given country and the level of support for the state, expressed by country's conservative political elite. In an…
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moneytree (37)in #crypto • 7 years ago
Nimiq ICO
I have decided to participate in an ICO for the first time. I believe Nimiq solves one of the most important problems of the crypto world - it makes things easier for the…
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moneytree (37)in #economics • 7 years ago
George Orwell on Austerity and War
I want to share this quote from 1984 further to my earlier post. “Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods…
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moneytree (37)in #economics • 7 years ago
Living Within Our Means
We live in the XXI century. We have inherited our civilisation from Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Khalifat and the West. Our technological progress is enormous.…
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moneytree (37)in #crypto • 7 years ago
Patientory - Your thoughts?
I invested in Patientory recently. Although the price went down since, I noted that the dump happened on very low volumes. As you can see from the chart, the price rises on high…
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moneytree (37)in #technology • 7 years ago
iPhone is 10 this Thursday
Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. Here are the 10 charts that show how it has changed the world:
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moneytree (37)in #milestone • 7 years ago
💯 followers!
Thanks to everyone who followed me! I hope you will find my posts interesting and I am looking forward to reading yours alike. Have a fabulous day!
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moneytree (37)in #usury • 7 years ago
Bernie Sanders on a National Usury Law
“The Bible has a term for this practice. It’s called usury. And in The Divine Comedy, Dante reserved a special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for those who charged people…
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moneytree (37)in #money • 7 years ago
Aristotle On Usury
The quote below seems to be interesting in our over-financialised world. The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and…
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moneytree (37)in #quote • 7 years ago
A Good Motto For Steemit
Like and follow if you agree.
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moneytree (37)in #money • 7 years ago
Paul Krugman to Bernard Lietaer: 'Never touch the money system!'
It is quite surprising that researching the money system is considered by The Very Serious People* as a domain of 'cranks'. I can understand when conspiracy theories are…
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moneytree (37)in #basicincome • 7 years ago
How To Fund A Universal Basic Income Fairly and Effectively
One of the main arguments against the universal basic income (UBI) program is its alleged unaffordability. However, this argument incorrectly implies that our existing financial…
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moneytree (37)in #quote • 7 years ago
Do People Understand Our Monetary System?
What do you think about this statement by Henry Ford?
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moneytree (37)in #truth • 8 years ago
Post-truth
Post-truth became Word of the year 2016, being defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than…
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