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    It's remarkable how Dutchland is the best source for optimism over Brexit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
    It's remarkable how Dutchland is the best source for optimism over Brexit.
    Of course, the Dutch are merchants at heart. A lot dutchies want out as well and really like it that England is doing fine, makes a nexit closer. Fellow dutchie Krazilec or TA will probably really disagree with me, and in a much better argumented manner. But the results don't lie. Results are neglectable. Not without any pain as so far, saying that would be cruel, but it looks promising.

    Can I still move to the UK if I was right all the time?

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    "How else do you explain the persistence of markets/capitalism as the dominant (not exclusive) economic form for most societies for the last 5 millennia?" Err, millennia? Not that long in Europe (few century ago in fact) market was not the benchmarking, but honour.
    At your death bed, you had to give your fortune, your earthly possessions as you had to prepare to face God as you came, naked...
    During millennia in fact, civilisations bloomed without the market economy. I explained it on the line market economy is a political construction, where the ones who possess protected their property/powers (through laws, force and propaganda) against the ones who have none.
    I seem to recall something about a primitive form of stock market and banking developing in ancient Mesopotamia on the basis of futures and derivatives, until a particular monarch realized he could simply appropriate the wealth of the entire enterprise and it was no longer. So you're both right - the form is not persistent, but the impulse is.
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    Who would've thought that greed isn't exactly a new concept?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
    Who would've thought that greed isn't exactly a new concept?
    On that we agree.
    "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman

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    Fall in pound post-Brexit means price of tea will go up

    Nations have fought wars of independence for less.

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    But what about straws, there are many hanging onto them. These aren't the colonal times. More expensive marmite and tea, oh noes. THIS MEANS, uhmmmm nothing really
    Last edited by Fragony; 10-30-2016 at 18:54.

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