posted by jenni on April 15th, 2012 at 7:00PM
Some people have parents who charge them rent or some people have parents that they are not capable of living with for many different reasons.If you want examples I can give you some! Life is expensive, but yes, people do make the choice of where they spend their money . Student loans however, are almost pointless. Students spend thousands to apparently gain access to better employment then the moment they are out of school the money comes right out of their bank accounts and back to the bank whether they have found a job or not.
Yes, the internet is a great learning tool but some, myself included, can't just learn by reading something, I need interaction, instant reaction, I find writing these responses a bit hard, beyond the fact that I don't much like writing I prefer to hear your answers right away, etc, and I feel like I make more sense in real life and digest your information better. Perhaps this is why I ignored your points.
I tend to think of a barter system as services as opposed to actual physical exchange of some material. I make you food you make me shoes or something.
Bitcoins seem to just be virtual money, but please correct me if I am wrong.
Your points are very valid and they always push me right into a wall and I get stuck and this is where I am now,
Yes, the internet is a great learning tool but some, myself included, can't just learn by reading something, I need interaction, instant reaction, I find writing these responses a bit hard, beyond the fact that I don't much like writing I prefer to hear your answers right away, etc, and I feel like I make more sense in real life and digest your information better. Perhaps this is why I ignored your points.
I tend to think of a barter system as services as opposed to actual physical exchange of some material. I make you food you make me shoes or something.
Bitcoins seem to just be virtual money, but please correct me if I am wrong.
Your points are very valid and they always push me right into a wall and I get stuck and this is where I am now,
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posted by dennisn on April 15th, 2012 at 10:47PM
My point was that I still don't see the desperate urgency that would be required to justify violent subsidization of schooling. Simply aesthetically preferring to live alone, or to have a real-life professor talking in front of you, or choosing an unprofitable industry to enter, are not even close to valid reasons to justify extreme violence. On the other hand, if you had an example of some handicapped mentally-retarded kid, who has no money and no brains, then perhaps that would warrant further consideration. Alas, 99.9% of advocates for public education are casually promoting bloody violence, simply for more convenience.
Money is essentially a far more efficient barter system. If you have some honey that I want, but you only accept chocolate in return for it, except I don't have any chocolate on me at the moment, I don't have to wait until I happen to find some middle-man who I can trade with to get some chocolate, to pay you with to get your honey. Instead, I could simply pay you in cash immediately, which you can redeem for chocolate, or anything else, whenever you want. Bitcoin is indeed a virtual (i.e. digital) money, but a very special and unique one. One that will revolutionize the world. It is completely independent of any government, it can be used and transferred completely anonymously, and it cannot be inflated -- in fact, the value of 1BTC will probably be worth many many times what it's worth currently (because of their finite supply), unlike State-fiat-money which drastically loses value over time. What wall are you stuck at? |
