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This reminds me of the wonderful theoretical country discussions we had in my economics classes at college.

Forget a new kind of bank. Go total bluesky. What IF, we could design our own set of sovereign laws and principles.

What would the "modern" country look like?



It would separate two forms of money: the common form of money used as means of exchange and a store of value; and, the debt/credit money created out of thin air through a contract and collateral. The two currencies would float against one another. People would be paid in common currency, but could borrow in the debt currency.





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