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You told me I had a lot to learn, I basically said so do you (as we all do), you told me that was indoctrination, thus it sounded like you were saying that it's not the case learning never ends.

If that's not the case, tell me in particular what indoctrination do you talk about?

So you assert that perfect knowledge is possible, and I'm assuming by your replies, you think you have obtained this perfect knowledge?

Should be a longer time frame GDP. Sometimes societies need to back off on consumption and invest instead. If this occurs over many years it will look bad using only quarterly GDP figures.

They were a product of their time I guess. Religion was a pretty big deal back then, and awful stuff happened to you if branded a heretic. However, the god some of them believed in wasn't the typical bearded man floating on a cloud. The contenental rationalists like Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, believed in a god that was all encompasing, e.g. Spinoza's god was just everything.

Eitherway, just like then, there's still a lot of questions that science has no answer for, so god was usually cast in role to fill that position, which is what Newton did in explaining the stability of planetary orbits. This was later made redundant by Laplace. The modern version is what caused the big bang? Leibniz would say god did, the event of original creation by the supermonad.

Also, go and eat something nice.

You're God theory has lots of problems too. At least with the General Theory of Relativity we get GPS, with God all we get is fear that we're going to hell. Pretty shit technology. Sounds like a conspiracy.

Why can't there be true conspiracies? I don't think you understand what the word conspire means.

I'll accept homekeeper if they also give us savingskeeper, every month all bank accounts get topped up with the same amount that inflation stole from them.

Time preference for spending in action. The fact that we all will die makes time the most valuable resource, and gives us the desire to spend everything today. Bitcoin gives us the incentive to save for tomorrow, which allows us to build modern society.

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