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A Basic Lesson in Economics

  Well, I found my first topic.  Over the past few years, I've come to notice that people love posting memes that only sound good if you have zero education on the topic they address.  A lot of these focus on the topics of finance and economics.  Now, don't misunderstand me: both of these topics are chock full of some serious bullshit that seems purposefully designed to frustrate everyone, but there are some basic ideas about which some people are getting incredibly stupid. The most recent example is a tweet from some idiot going by Commie Warlock, who apparently thinks economics is magic.  It reads: "humans really made up paper money and to give it value said it's value was based on a metal which also has a made up value and then convinced everyone again that those made up values are constantly decreasing and that they determine whether or not a child can eat".  Holy shit.  I don't even know where to begin with this.   Okay, first, I'm glad those long ago

That was silly of me

 Posting once a week?  What was I thinking? I don't know how often this will be updated, but I'll throw links on my Facebook page when I do, in case anyone is interested.  This will likely end up being a repository for my thoughts on various geek, news, or philosophy related thoughts that I don't want to inflict on someone else's comment thread and too long to post to my own FB page. Got some ideas brewing now.  Expect an update soonish.