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acesulfameable says...

These borrowers knowingly made bad loans to people who didn't understand the contract. In that case it is the lenders fault and the bank should be forced to restructure the loan and not allowed to go to foreclosure. People should never be put out in the street if the mortgage can be restructured.

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acesulfameable says...

Why do informative videos never inspire comments and debate? QM is amazingly quiet on actual thoughtful videos.

Is it better to try to save the US empire or let it fall to make way for a new empire? Or even to have no empires at all?

As a Canadian none of these options are good ones. Our economy is so tied to the US that its fall would take us down too. But the influence of US politics is ruining our culture and changing our political culture to one of secrecy and lies. But Canada has always leeched off empires and defined itself by emulating the empire and rejecting it at the same time. So without an empire to follow Canada has no identity.

While most people don't give shits about Canada I'm sure we are not the only country that will have to redefine itself after the US empire ends.

Come one people, join the discussion. Tell me I'm full of shit (which is hardly new). This is where opinions can actually matter.

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acesulfameable says...

"...profit is the signal which tells us what we must do in order to serve people whom we do not know..."

So only through data from profit, economic success, can we determine the success of something. A doctor that makes money is a good doctor even his patients aren't healed. Or a farmer that makes money is a good farmer even if he grows unhealthy food.

But wait, it's people we do not know. A so called “extended society" where “... we all working for people we do not know and are being supported by people we do not know...”. Who are these people we do not know? Are they off the census or do they live underground in the sewers? How many people don't know their boss, or the company they where they work? I can trace almost anything I buy. Sellers, distributors, transporters, manufacturers, and even the farmers and miners are findable. Look at the lot numbers on an object and you can trace it's history with some work.

I understand that Hayek is taking the epistemological limits and applying them to economics and his “people we don't know” is a representation of the unknown beyond limits of human knowledge. But his fundamental basis is false. An economy is not beyond human understanding. It is not divine power that provides by magic our wants and needs. They economy is made of real people and real stuff.

Maybe later I'll deconstruct Hayek's assertion that “... socialism assumes that all available knowledge can be used by a single central authority.”

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acesulfameable says...

Well I'll be buggered! I thought they were Canadian. Must have mixed them up with Glass Tiger. Wait, no one here cares anyways. Ah, f'k it, if blankfist can share every little opinion of his then so can I. And with worse grammar (!kelsey) too!



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