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The blogger has an incredibly malicious attitude towards individual people.

Everyone is ruining everything, everybody is bad, and we ought to regulate everything to fix it. Because somehow bureaucrats are immune from whatever ails people that are seeking the pursuit of happiness.

The blog post is disconnected from reality in so many places that I couldn't even begin to respond.

Somebody who kept their thinking connected to reality would have a pretty hard time getting to those kinds of views in the first place.

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I don't understand why you think a person with experience in the banking and software industries who wrote a detailed post sharing thoughts on Bitcoin and surrounding culture, with links to reference material that he believes supports his argument, is 'disconnected from reality'. All I see in your post is a really weak generalization of the themes of his post in an attempt to undermine them.

Because he is disconnected from reality. The post is absolutely chock full of mistaken and fantastic premises.

It's just an observation I've made. People will have to agree or disagree based on their own judgement.

I acknowledge that I am not providing any evidence for this. It wouldn't be worth the effort to me of deconstructing his post sentence by sentence.

~sigh~

Enough.

Save your unsupported observations and your fucking breath.

Your contributions and the contributions of other libertarians in this thread amount to little more than endlessly bleating that (in the opinion of the greedy), greed couldn't possibly have led to financial calamities, and that impediments to greed like democratically elected governments and legislated, popular laws are to blame for financial calamities....the disasters that history has shown repeatedly arise only when those same laws are weakened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Economic_disasters_in_...

> ~sigh~ Enough. Save your unsupported observations and your fucking breath.

I think this kind of statement speaks for itself.

> other libertarians

I'm not a libertarian. I think libertarians are terribly mistaken.

> the disasters that history has shown repeatedly arise only when those same laws are weakened

That's right. When "deregulation" actually means something like "let's allow private ownership and operation of a coropration that has a government-granted regulatory monopoly," it is a total disaster. You have to get rid of coersion from the market completely for it to function as a market. So I agree with you---a mixed economy is complete and utter crap.

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