Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-19 Thread david friedman
I would not like to use dirty words but this line of thought could take you directly to some kind of racism. That's why your question is just stupid. But you probably know it. It sounds as though you are saying one of two things: 1. The belief that race is important is, by definition, racism,

Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-19 Thread david friedman
Thinking and writing analytically about race is certainly a good and important thing to do. As far as I know, the "race problem" has been analytically treated in two ways. One, to consider human homogeneity (there is one human race). Two to consider human heterogeneity (there are different human

Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-19 Thread Girard
The second answer is of course the good one. As Maria said, there is only one human race. What we call human races are just artifacts. We all come from so mixed background that if there ever was something like different human races they disapeared long ago. But all this thread started with a

Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-19 Thread david friedman
The second answer is of course the good one. The second answer was: "2. The belief that race is important is known to be false with such confidence that considering the alternative is a waste of time, hence stupid. " As Maria said, there is only one human race. There is only one canine

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2001-02-19 Thread Ralph Lazar
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Digital Gold Offers Liquidity to Dollar-Spooked Investors

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Rasch
[Remarkable growth rate in e-gold accounts--3,000 to 130,000 in eighteen months. They also charge much lower transaction fees than credit card companies. And via OmniPay, you can pay bills from your e-gold account. It will be interesting to see what happens when more and more transactions

Re: Digital Gold Offers Liquidity to Dollar-Spooked Investors message dated Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:59:08 -0700.

2001-02-19 Thread Sourav K. Mandal
"Chris Rasch [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: It will be interesting to see what happens when more and more transactions occur via these currencies. One caveat: much of that growth rate appears to be due to online Ponzi and MLM schemes.] Say, hypothetically, that the demand for gold as currency