Comments on: Show me the money and I’ll deny that ghosts exist http://twofish.wordpress.com Thoughts about academia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, quantitative finance, Chinese economics, and Austrian economics Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:46:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: frankxerox http://twofish.wordpress.com/show-me-the-money-and-ill-deny-that-ghosts-exist/#comment-33279 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:37:17 +0000 https://twofish.wordpress.com/show-me-the-money-and-ill-deny-that-ghosts-exist/#comment-33279 @logical -
The implication of what you say would seem to be that you will never find money in the real world.
I have to say that, yes, by & large, this has been my experience too :-)

]]> By: logical http://twofish.wordpress.com/show-me-the-money-and-ill-deny-that-ghosts-exist/#comment-32970 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:43:11 +0000 https://twofish.wordpress.com/show-me-the-money-and-ill-deny-that-ghosts-exist/#comment-32970 You are confusing the existence of the concept with the existence of the entity the concept names. Of course, the concept exists and has certain effects – as does the concept of a unicorn (it has effects on children’s minds), but that doesn’t mean you’ll ever find a unicorn in the real world. Ditto ghosts.

]]> By: Anonymous http://twofish.wordpress.com/show-me-the-money-and-ill-deny-that-ghosts-exist/#comment-17316 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:56:00 +0000 https://twofish.wordpress.com/show-me-the-money-and-ill-deny-that-ghosts-exist/#comment-17316 The money in the bank account is simply an agreement, and understanding. Money was just paper and metal, now it can also be an agreement with an online bank, but in the end, you have to get it from a source that everyone agrees deserves the money (e.g. worked x amount of hours and was paid x amount of dollars for it, is holding x amount of money given by someone else to hold on to) and because money is only given to those who deserve it (in the earned sense, not the emotional sense) people honor the money and are willing to accept it for physical goods and services because they know others will honor it as well.

Money is really just some paper, metal, data packets that a society agrees are valuable for the sake of more efficient transactions.

A ghost as in a spirit probably doesn’t stay on the earth after you die. A person’s ghost as in an idea and a legacy certain does though. People will remember you and you will leave a trace that will last for a while. But thats not what people usually talk about when they say ghosts.

]]> By: LONNIE http://twofish.wordpress.com/show-me-the-money-and-ill-deny-that-ghosts-exist/#comment-3149 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:57:57 +0000 https://twofish.wordpress.com/show-me-the-money-and-ill-deny-that-ghosts-exist/#comment-3149 Great stuff…

Glad I found you via Kevin…

]]> By: yilei http://twofish.wordpress.com/show-me-the-money-and-ill-deny-that-ghosts-exist/#comment-3131 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:18:55 +0000 https://twofish.wordpress.com/show-me-the-money-and-ill-deny-that-ghosts-exist/#comment-3131 hehe, there are so many words, phrase, facts, put them whatever a way you prefer, if believe it is true, that is true to you.

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