Hadn’t thought of it that way Ciaran before.
ejh, there one has it. There’s an amazing disconnection between a lot of libertarian right thinking and the actuality of sales and purchase. In a way that’s what makes it doubly interesting, because it’s so abstracted. There was another Planet Money podcast where they went to a right libertarian summer camp where people bought and sold using gold (in order to avoid dollars). The sheer complexity and inefficiency of it, the time consuming haggling and so on, seemed akin to performance art and the sort of thing that would push one straight back to the dollar, quick smart.
