On 18/10/2020 12:57, Björn Lundin wrote:
> Den 2020-09-12 kl. 11:11, skrev Deloptes:
>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>>> That does not work. Look t the French today. Absolutely no democracy
>>> left, they all WANT to be run by a big State rather than a king.
>>
>> yes this is the result of bottom-up, but even worse is Sweden.
>> If you study the history you will see that Sweden is the experimental
>> play
>> ground for the left - you will also find out that the queen there
>> betrayed
>> her people and the British followed (paper money). Who did not follow,
>> was
>> removed from power.
>>
>
> What? I won't comment the playground thing more than if you are american
> - you'll likely think all swedes are communists (even the
> conservatives). But no - we are not.
>
> And which queen was that?
> The _only_ queen we had - of any relevance - was Kristina, which was in
> the 1600s
>

A quick Google reveals that Sweden introduced banknotes (paper money) in
1661, under Kristina. Presumably this was on TNP's radar as we have
recently almost completely stopped using cash in the UK, due to Covid.

Paper money helped to enable government debt, but the UK built the
British Empire using debt so I don't know why TNP considers this a
betrayal. Perhaps he will explain?

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