Henry George

What about the most important ingredient: Confidence in the establishment issuing the money.

 

This is known as the period where we went off the "Beaver" standard and began the gold standard. You know, where we trade 3 bushels of wheat for beaver...

 

3 bushels wheat = 1 beaver (which type? Doesn't matter. ). There's no gold in that equivalence.

 

New Jerseyans......or is it New Jerseyites?.......wear beaver. New Yorkers wear mink and sable.

 

You're saying he was a fabulous, flamboyant and "flaming" kind of guy?

 

No, he was saying you are.

 

If you have a "good" beaver, you can trade for a lot of gold.

 

Ag jobs have died out. Industrial jobs are dying out. Technology-related jobs should be next to go. What will be left after that?......We'll all become gardeners and farmers again and repeat the whole cycle. :eek:

 

Not all of us. The robot owners and their descendants will live their lives without performing ag labor, long, healthy lives full of leisure and luxury. But maybe with a little bit of fear, too. : )