Wossname wrote:Don’t know why you keep insisting I’m pushing a political agenda.
I didn't say you were "pushing a political agenda", did I? I said that you appear to be interested in something different to me. That's not the same as telling you that you are "pushing a political agenda". Take another look at this example of me saying this:
Steve3007 wrote:I think you were looking for a practical political discussion about the politics of austerity, in the light of MMT, not an esoteric philosophical discussion about the respective natures of abstract and real entities.
That's not me telling you that you're pushing a politcal agenda, is it? Is there somewhere else where you think I've told you that you are pushing a political agenda? Is so, where?
Wossname wrote:I have just responded to your questions.
I honestly don't think you have. I don't mind that. I really don't. As I said, you're free to discuss what you're interested in. You're free to ignore my comments if you consider them to be off-topic, or just not very interesting. I've told you what I'm interested in and how it appears to differ from what you appear to be interested in.
Wossname wrote:As to movement or deletion, I have noted the other thread and the reason for it. Talking of people being strongly motivated to look for something to support their view, are you sure this is not you here?
Maybe. But I don't think so. As I said in one of the posts in that topic, one of the interesting things about philosophy (to me) is stepping back from the details of individual subjects and looking for wider questions that they throw up. To my mind, one of the wider questions thrown up by this topic about fiat money is the one I set out in the OP of that other topic. That doesn't mean I'm somehow bent on demanding that everybody accepts that cutting and pasting is the same (for abstract concepts) as moving. It's just an interesting question (to me).
I think it's possible to find a question interesting, and to discuss possible answers to it, without pre-insisting what the answer is, or even that there is a definite answer. If I think that the principles of fiat money elucidated by MMT result in a wider question which touches on such apparently unrelated subjects as teleportation, I see nothing wrong with starting a topic about it in a philosophy forum.
The government can write as many IOUs as it wants. Whenever it wants.
Just to clarify: You are aware that I have explicitly said this same thing myself many times, yes? I've also re-quoted myself saying it in case you missed it.