Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Re: Liberterianism Message-ID: <566@gloria.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 11:07:45 EDT Article-I.D.: gloria.566 Posted: Mon Oct 1 11:07:45 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Oct-84 07:26:52 EDT References: <559@denelcor.UUCP> <22400011@ea.UUCP> Organization: SUNY at Buffalo Confuser Science Lines: 15 > BTW - REAL libertarians may not use money, but we will accept promisary > notes from sufficiently trustworthy people. Now, if somebody is *so* > trustworthy that everybody will accept their promisary notes in trade, > could you explain how that is different from money? It depends on what the notes are promising. If this kind of society ever comes to pass, I would gladly accept notes promising to provide potatoes or flannel shirts. Why would I want a promise to provide gold? I never use the stuff. In the computer age, money is obsolete! The value of anything is just what you can bargain for it. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel