[AdamSelene235]

There has never been a gold standard in operation for more than a few years at a time. War breaks out and the GS is scrapped. EVERY time.

Funny how that works. WWI for example would have been over in a matter of weeks if we had remained on a gold standard.

Similarly the North could not have continued its economic exploitation of the South without issuing funny money.

Its almost as if fiat is a tool used to get the masses to do things that are not in their interests.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Funny how the North could continue it "exploitation" of the south when the South voted for every tariff and controlled the Congress before the Civil War.

The South was exploited by the economic system of Slavery and the great planters who controlled all.

Where do I get the crystal ball that will show me that WWI would have ended quickly but for not being on the GS?

There is no fiat. It is a myth as Germany of 1922 showed.