No, debasing is not the same as devaluing a currency. Debasing a currency means reducing its intrinsic value even though the face value remains the same. Coins are debased when they are minted with precious metals, such as gold and silver, and mixed with lower quality metals. The devaluati...
Some people identify as I’m a private person. What does that expression really mean? From my experience, this claim to privacy is a cover for low self-worth and suggests a real correlation to other esteem. You see, if you can mask yourself well enough so others don’t really have an ...
I do not play D&D, but players in my roleplaying game have called stuff "chaotic," like "chaotic good" and "chaotic evil" and I would like to know what they mean. The game I play does not use this term. What is chaotic and what is it used for? What effect does it have on...
But he does think that the culturally liberal and free-market ideology that has guided America’s politics in recent years is a hopeless dead end. “A country is not just an economy,” Masters told the dissident-right outlet IM—1776 recently. “You also need a conception of yoursel...
The first is quite debasing. (The foreman harasses her.) The other is more like a purifying romance. (Lyddie’s neighbour wants to marry her because he loves her mind.) She returns to her home and recognises how much she has known. She decides to defer marrying Luke until she has gr...
I don't tend to believe that. We are told Bill Gates is doing a similar thing now, giving away an appreciable part of his fortune. Well, if that is so, then how does Gates' fortune continue to rise? For a wider example: if the billionaires are so philanthropic, how is it that ...
So how does a government do it? Clean sheet of paper, what you do, is you establish a tax that is payable in something that people don’t have. So what you want to do is transfer resources from the private sector to the public sector. You want people who are out there doing ...
To me the American Dream is the liberty offered to its citizens; the freedom to attend school, to start a business, to work, to pray if you want to, and not how many things I own. Material possessions, albeit nice, are not what life and happiness are all about. As a matter of fac...