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@jbhearn @AynRand_is_Dead @MMTLabour @arthur_eckart @cjenscook @yankinwales @askeamonn @Gravity_v20 @robert19pearson @lafih22 @mmt_rod @JohnfrmClevelnd @_IanFoster_ @JimRosenz @ProfSteveKeen @FadhelKaboub @ptcherneva If there was no government, and currency was gold.

Then, when those who create the best businesses accumulate the majority of gold, where will the money come from to allow people to start their own businesses?

Or should the economy be a fight to the death?
@jbhearn @AynRand_is_Dead @MMTLabour @arthur_eckart @cjenscook @yankinwales @askeamonn @Gravity_v20 @robert19pearson @lafih22 @mmt_rod @JohnfrmClevelnd @_IanFoster_ @JimRosenz @ProfSteveKeen @FadhelKaboub @ptcherneva I became an MMT advocate, after trying to make a trading game which 'balanced the books'. The first people to play the game, by virtue of being the first, collected the most 'currency'. the later players couldn't get anywhere, and bankrupt.
Eventually, there was no players left
@jbhearn @AynRand_is_Dead @MMTLabour @arthur_eckart @cjenscook @yankinwales @askeamonn @Gravity_v20 @robert19pearson @lafih22 @mmt_rod @JohnfrmClevelnd @_IanFoster_ @JimRosenz @ProfSteveKeen @FadhelKaboub @ptcherneva I built the game to balance the budgets. The 'gov' (that would be me), would not create money. That was down to players to create it, from trading, and getting loans.

it didn't work.

They economics you push, doesn't work @jbhearn
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