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Old 02-12-2009, 09:08 AM   #103
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Originally Posted by mcsluggo View Post
so... what you are saying is that "the dollar" as we know it today was a technological advance, much in the same way that a demand deposit (checking account) and a credit card was.

amen to that.
Actually, that'd be what you are saying.

I wouldn't call it a technological advance -- the chinese had paper (or rather, fiat) money 1,000 years ago. I would say that fiat currencies are a "technology" that have been tried and tested many times in history, and the answer is always the same.
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