in reply to Re^8: Patience is a Monk Virtue
in thread Patience is a Monk Virtue

poverty, a plethora of currencies, [...] [more Bad Things]

Surely the one-currency-experiment we still have here (the Euro) hasn't worked out so well.

I'm all for European cooperation (and even pro-EU) but national currencies seem to be a Good Thing (or at least for as long national peoples are not willing to pick up each other's debts)

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Re^10: Patience is a Monk Virtue
by LanX (Saint) on Nov 16, 2017 at 23:07 UTC
    Size matters even with bad apples in the basket.

    The fact alone that we can just print money now, without being punished* proves the benefit of size...

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
    Je suis Charlie!

    *) a privilege once limited to the then only reserve currency.

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