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Ok. Fair. Let me correct myself: money was based on material goods and not rich peoples feefees about the economy.
Ok. Fair. Let me correct myself: money was based on material goods and not rich peoples feefees about the economy.
That’s only true when you are dealing with the infinite growth of capitalism. Nations and empires have used the gold standard for thousands of years. It only became “impossible” when we tried to inflate the value of economies into the stratosphere to enrich the aristocrats of society.
Can you elaborate on why this would be destabilizing? I mean obviously the president dying is bad, but are there specific groups that are in positions to do anything to cause problems due to this? Wouldn’t there be someone under him in the chain of command or another election that could be held?
I do not know very much about Iran’s internal politics beyond a basic synopsis, I’m just looking for some info.
But… But what about their CULTURE!!! If you make them be nice and stop oppressing people, it would DESTROY their culture!!
These “structures” are not buildings or something. They are collections of stars/galaxies. So yeah. This is a silly article.
They said “some bullshit reason” because the same logic would very clearly not be applied to trump if he were to do the same. Think a bit. It’s ok.