> I'm doing a bad job of explaining this,

I think you did pretty well!

and "endless supply of mind-candy" is what we do over here

denlillaapan

perfect illustration of how a politically-neutral monetary medium helps good 

politically neutral laws of physics help good and bad people alike

Probably because we don't have any control over the laws of physics. And you might think that's a pretty big distinction, but I'd argue that we don't actually have any control over the way money works, either. We just think we do.

Political money is just as much a distortion of reality as a government telling people not to use language in a certain way. Politically neutral money is necessary because money doesn't work otherwise.

I'm doing a bad job of explaining this, but I'm trying to say that money isn't some service or good that humans create because it is useful and we just have to put up with bad people using it -- instead using money is the natural state of humanity and the badness creeps in when people try to distort the money to only function for some people.

hmm. still not quite getting it out. But I could spend all morning writing this comment, so I'll post and think on it some more. (I like these reviews because they always trigger things for me, it's like an endless supply of mind-candy).

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Uncovering Gold’s Secret History (Mises Institute, Joakim Book)

Very nice review! 

> **perfect illustration of how a politically-neutral monetary medium helps good *and* bad people** alike

We wouldn't say

> politically neutral laws of physics help good and bad people alike

Probably because we don't have any control over the laws of physics. And you might think that's a pretty big distinction, but I'd argue that we don't actually have any control over the way money works, either. We just think we do. 

Political money is just as much a distortion of reality as a government telling people not to use language in a certain way. Politically neutral money is necessary because money doesn't work otherwise. 

I'm doing a bad job of explaining this, but I'm trying to say that money isn't some service or good that humans create because it is useful and we just have to put up with bad people using it -- instead using money is the natural state of humanity and the badness creeps in when people try to distort the money to only function for some people.

hmm. still not quite getting it out. But I could spend all morning writing this comment, so I'll post and think on it some more. (I like these reviews because they always trigger things for me, it's like an endless supply of mind-candy).