@petep44 Also as someone who enjoys following the sinking ship of crypto currencies etc...
It is amazing how quickly people who have argued for 10 years that all regulations being removed is AMAZING screamed for regulations as soon as they got "robbed". (not sure if you can be robbed if there are no rules that says you can't take someone else's currency).
Bravo!
"After Atlas shrugged, he cried."
SearingTruth
Money was invented shortly after the first warlord hired the first two soldiers to protect three farmers.
i jumped in for the Rand/Ryan post which was funny.
this take is dead tbh. you look like a white settler in the usa. your experiences are not universal.
for example, there is nothing con or fool about most indigenous spiritual beliefs. it's sacred tradition, and learning is stored therein.
heck, religion carried scientific development for years, sometimes stunted it, but they had the resources to store tomes of knowledge and work out things about astronomy and navigation.
i think the first religion started when people started asking questions. how was the earth made? how were we made? do we have an existence beyond our physical bodies, why did the sun go dark during the day and a ring of fire appeared in the sky?
then they looked for explanations.
and that is how i see religion starting.
someone asking "why?"