Fischer vs. Kasparov

chesspoo is playing with a false sense of a stacked deck cuz he's "saved". this conversation never really even started for him.

I'll admit I totally misread just how much of a d-o-u-c-h-e you can really be...

The Treatise on Money (and many other tomes) has already been written.  Sorry.

Move on to Nature and Nuture, or Yogi and Boo-Boo, and Strawberries.

You might have a bit more traction in that discussion.  

Dude, if you wanted to move the debate to a different arena, you would have said you were doing so.  Or you would if you were a conscionable member of society, seeing as it is incredibly rude to respond to someone's statement by talking about a different topic, unless you state clearly this is what you're doing.  It's then insufferable to suggest that, absent these qualifiers, you're merely thinking about it in a deeper way than others.

So, either you're wrong and insufferable about that, or right and insufferable about that.  'grats, dude.

After 1000+ posts, the sky is the limit.    So let er' rip.

TheGrobe wrote:

chesspooljuly13 wrote:

I'm sure you can survive for the rest of your life picking strawberries and huckleberries.

Our ancestors somehow managed prior to the invention of money.

I'm talking about the world we live in today. Unless you have a time machine that can transport you back to the BC days, your argument's not really relevant.

I don't have one, any chance you'd sell me yours?

  Sign me up for the next ferry to Canada.  Great weed in Vancouver.

theo a douche? more like chess player of the month!

bigpoison wrote:

chesspooljuly13 wrote:

Right, but does not the farmer receive money for growing food? Does not the slaughterhouse receive money for providing meat? Do not the truckers who bring the food to the grocery store receive money for their labor? Do you think the farmer grows food without being compensated with money? Do workers in the slaughterhouse work for free? Do the truckers not get paid for bringing food to the grocery store?

Sure, that's one way.  However, there are much more traditional ways of putting meat in the pan.  Ways that require knowledge and skill, but not money.

Do you make your own rifle, bullets, bow and arrows, frying pan? Or do you need money for those things? Let me guess: You chase the deer on foot, strangle it with your bare hands, use a sharp rock to cut it up and place the meat on another rock so it can be cooked by the sun. Got it!

"I'm talking about the world we live in today. Unless you have a time machine that can transport you back to the BC days, your argument's not really relevant."

I don't think we live in the same world.  I can't remember the last time I bought meat.

It's lookin' like I'll have to buy hay this year, though.  Bummer.

If only you could get paid for naïveté.

ilikeflags wrote:

chesspoo is playing with a false sense of a stacked deck cuz he's "saved". this conversation never really even started for him.

Not at all. I like a good debate.

Let me know when there's one to be had.

@TheGrobe: So you don't need or use money for anything? Congratulations. That is very impressive. But you're the exception, not the rule

@TheGrobe: Insults are like crying uncle in a debate. I accept your resignation.

i wish chess.com had an expert on THE truth AND the modern western economy.

That's not at all what I said, but it's certainly not the root of my life's fulfillment and I maintain that it's possible to live a fruitful, fulfilling life without it.

You're not following along either, it seems.  What's with the extremism?  We all recognize that money is important in today's society.  What we can't seem to agree upon is how important.

It's not number one...and, like truth, not even in the top ten.

Responding to well-placed insults with a humourless air of superiority is the real crime, I feel.