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@sardonicsmile

You used to be able to watch Jeff Berwick interview people on Anarchast but he got replaced by some other guy

Now I do not know where to find his old Anarchast videos

Now he does Dollar Vigilante videos

But I am not a supporter of bitcoin

I am a supporter of barter without electronic nor paper money

And gift based economics

And distributism but not big government marxist "communist" style distributism

And reducing artificial scarcity

https://dollarvigilante.com/

@shortstories Well, the barter system is inefficient. What if you want a product/service but the provider does not accept payment in what you are bartering with? Having money is efficient.

I do not think scarcity is artificial. Every resource is finite even the produced resources.
i.e. There are only so many Porsche 911 GT3 Touring models builany given year. That isnwhat makes then sought after. Commands a high price.

@sardonicsmile

You can barter with gold

People can make tools and art out of gold

I have a problem with paper and electronic money

I suppose you could barter with paper but it would be very heavy

Say someone wanted to put paper in their printer or draw art on paper

But paper money with a 20 symbol on it does not give you more paper than paper money with a 5 symbol on it

There is a difference between genuine and artificial scarcity

Artificial scarcity comes from bad laws & policies

@sardonicsmile

Artificial scarcity might be intentionally making a product defective

Making it impossible to repair a vehicle without software that you could duplicate but can not because of software piracy laws

Making skills unable to be used due to regulation and credentialism

Not the good kind of credentialism to prevent incompetant people from working but the bad kind to prevent competant people from working

There are many more types and examples