Quote Originally Posted by Ramil View Post
You always put yourself on a 'losing side'... Why is that? Are you a banker?
Well, none of the "kulaks" who where executed were bankers. The logic of "why are you afraid if you hadn't done anything wrong" is a blue pill, by the way. (sad grim here)

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Do you live in a cardbox?
You might be a young couple with a baby sharing a one-bedroom apartment with your parents and you want to move out into your own apartment. Not an uncommon situation.

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That's because I didn't know how.
More specifically, because you didn't have the means (=the infrastructure) to use that Joule. That included the research for the infrastructure, the materials for building it, and the labour of the various types. All that combined created a cost. And the amount of comfort that Joule gives to you at a specific point in time creates its value for you at that very point.

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The amount of energy was the same and the potential work was there always.
The Sun is out there. Screw the gold currency, I have the Sun always producing a lot of Joules!!!!!! Yay!!!

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I don't think so. If you measure everything in joules (not in US Dollars) then the nominal value will be the same. Quite probably, you can buy more bread tomorrow for 100 K Joules than you can do today, but that's not because a Joule would become more expensive, but because bread would become cheaper.
I suggest throw away that strange idea of gold and start accumulating electrical energy in capacitors. Perhaps, we could use those Joules in the future with more comfort than now.

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Again, you can't invest in gold if you have a gold-driven economy. That's pure nonsense. Invest what? Gold? You can, of course buy 1 ounce of gold for 1 ounce of gold, but what's the point of that? I cannot lose money in that case, because MONEY = GOLD. I don't propose investing in gold, I propose to switch from the 'floating value' of money equivalent to a 'fixed value' one, be that gold, joules, or glass beads.
Ok, I probably did my best to show you that doesn't make much sense, but probably I'm not all that convincing.