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mircea_popescu: i'd seriously consider ending davout's contract if he pays without signature.
mircea_popescu: "i am taking this from you because you're too stupid to have it". and they knew this is true, and SIGHED THEIR RELIEF.
mircea_popescu: (can you actually read stuff like that or should i provide a summary instead ?)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your no shortage of "sane examples" refers to an abundance of "convenient retelliungs"
mircea_popescu: that's the thing. technology is intellectually sterile.
mircea_popescu: "how do you propose to make diff work ?" "above my pay grade chief, but here's a website with code snippets"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it did prevail in the justice of the time, did it not.
mircea_popescu: for the record, it's not even clear moving from bearer to certified insturment is anti-liberty. for insmtance - hansa used the certifierd instrument greatly, because as a merchant, giving your son a plain "pay the bearer so much silver upon presentation of this note in such town" was merely an invitation to any highwayman on route to "please fuck this young man in the ass and here's the pay for your trouble"
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: technically money, in its circulatory form (ie, currency - to distinguish from the money as unit of account, for instance) was coins and bank-notes. coins are now disused, for entirely practical reasons ; and bank-notes come in those two flavours. moving from one to the other isn't THAT big a leap.
mircea_popescu: "pretty miss dutchess found by peasants - they didn't get to keep her"
mircea_popescu: which is quite contradictory with all the soaps the peasant women watch, which all reduce to
mircea_popescu: perhaps by this notion same peasant who finds young dutchess and "always had her in family" should ALSO keep her
mircea_popescu: well the entire contention was the strange notion that peasant who "finds" vermeer and "has always had it in family" should get to keep it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: debate that teh peoples involved have little juice left in the ballsac.
mircea_popescu: sure, and exact same could be argued (and has been argued, by people arguing from your same chari) about trhe evil capitalists which "do not even see the common people they vampirize"
mircea_popescu: so you say "they came as locusts" ? so did we. ask the power rangers.
mircea_popescu: the class at issue is the class which includes that "they" and that other "they" and also "us".
mircea_popescu: special pleading is a category of pleading, which is a category of speech, which happens in the forum, where the speaker proposes that one member of a category be different from the others on no grounds.
mircea_popescu: so. b-a is the irc channel where vampires of mankind gather, to discuss how to lower into pederasty the teenaged daughters of hard working social media wokers.
mircea_popescu: can you say something more substantial of this than plain if third hand echos of 1970s soviet postcards ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, this expectation that some sort of nativism trumps wot is not unlike that swanson's fellow's expectation to tell me "how debates are done".
mircea_popescu: but one is not required to sell, be your own oil baron.
mircea_popescu: it used to be a regular occurence in the usa that some cowboy owned some land, got it taken off his hands, buyer became oil baron
mircea_popescu: now, this was true of money, or more specifically, of currency
mircea_popescu: i don't know that ever in the history of civilisation was fine art a bearer document.
mircea_popescu: but in principle a parliament is not required to allow carrier notes in its realm.
mircea_popescu: the part where they seem to also have forgotten to tell anyone is also atrrocious
mircea_popescu: but they re-defined them, apparently, to be a sort of cheques.
mircea_popescu: well, it is an atrocity, because bills were itnended to be carrier notes.
mircea_popescu: (his field was 1800s ro painting, which incidentally is pretty rich.)
mircea_popescu: and started a career in art, specifically painting scholarship
mircea_popescu: one of my dearest teachers in college, at the time a respected doctor, retired
mircea_popescu: but your argument is flawed, which i know personally, and ill tell you why
mircea_popescu: won't take 10 years, at how condensed timeframes are now. used to be 35-50.
mircea_popescu: a) go to classical/art college ; b) go to auction house intern position ; c) write for whoever will publish about art and do a good job.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's fucking trivial to get in said wot.
mircea_popescu knows random romanian kid that sold for ~1.5mn last year
mircea_popescu: they keep pumping more kids in as they need to keep the denominations low enough.
mircea_popescu: you'll notice however that the debasement is very well controlled in the same manner fed controlls the dollar.
mircea_popescu: yes, people will consider you're abject, after this claim. but the claim was disposed not on the grounds of who you are, but on the grounds of what proof was had.
mircea_popescu: against the nonsensical vacuum of anyone ever having seen this ?
mircea_popescu: if you claim that "hilary clinton is my wife" on the grounds of "she was always in my family" should your claim stand ?
mircea_popescu: "i owned it since forever" "who ever saw it ?" "only mute people"