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mircea_popescu: that is the very point of money : they who have it are smarter than you, and you should listen to them.
mircea_popescu: why ? cause people were busy dickingaround on facebook ? fuck that.
mircea_popescu: of the thousands of people who saw it and hundred+ that talked to me about it, i got 3 submissions.
mircea_popescu: a fine example : i made a contest on my blog, for peopel to write fiction. reward was 5btc minimum + up to 100
mircea_popescu: but don't assume he is for me and expect i give you the money.
mircea_popescu: good is not unrelated, randomly occuring, fallen from the sky
mircea_popescu: not the govt job. if rich people want to pay for their education let them
mircea_popescu: Namjies no. this devalues education for everyone else.
mircea_popescu: i was ranting about how the eurozone is not good enough for romania to join earlier.
mircea_popescu: anyway. that aside health i can see as a function of govt, in many cases. mostly trauma.
mircea_popescu: problem with it being soft on kids is tghat there's nothing they can accomplish anymore.
mircea_popescu: Namjies well, we're discussing principle. impossible to attack with anecdote.
mircea_popescu: where they imagine they're the king of the world for the first 2-3 decades and then discover they really have no value.
mircea_popescu: and in general, kids must know they're worthless at a much earlier age than the current system
mircea_popescu: kid must know that if he's kicked out of school that means prison, digging ditches or sucking cock
mircea_popescu: if going to school was an exception, and his only chance out of the slum and something he'd work hard for, it'd be different.
mircea_popescu: because they don't risk anything. goes to school, doesn't learn, no big deal
mircea_popescu: i would rather have millions of smart kids die iliterate than billions of idiot kids think it's ok to give their opinions when adults talk.
mircea_popescu: Namjies the problem with education paid for by other people is that it creates the disrespectful assholes we see today.
mircea_popescu: remarkable what small % of moving funds are mtgox trades
mircea_popescu: cme are such idiots. who told them e-micro can be 1/10 standard
mircea_popescu: for the record, iso name for btc would prolly be xbt or something
mircea_popescu: smickles : you should post this novel sorcery as a comment in the futures post
mircea_popescu: smickles amusingly, netflix not mentioned on his wiki page :DF
mircea_popescu: but hey, with great risk comes great reward. you could in principle make ~70x your money in a year-ish