Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-66.87.85.222-20170412181021/@comment-28794147-20170419130659

You know what? Econimics are just screwed up at this point.

We all agreed that gold is worth something, even though it is, practically speaking, useless. We agreed that these green peices of paper represent worthless gold, so they are worth something. We agreed that little copper coins represent much rarer gold, and are worth something.

Sometimes, I wonder if anything would be solved if we went back to bartering for goods. I have no view on this, just some food for thought.

As far as political systems go, republics (represenative democracies) are the best, but to be fair, there are pretty much no other good ones out there. And of course, we have the problems of mob rule and politicians going back on their word and stuff like that. I would say elective monarchies would be good, but they'd have the same problems as republics, but made much larger in scale because the king possesses much more power.