{"id":9727,"date":"2015-04-25T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daylightatheism\/?page_id=9727"},"modified":"2015-04-25T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T16:36:14","slug":"ii-vii-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daylightatheism\/series\/atlas-shrugged\/the-cobra-commander-dialogues\/ii-vii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cobra Commander Dialogues: II.VII.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Originally posted on Atlas Shrugged: Goldbuggery<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Cobra Commander:<\/b> Okay Ragnar let\u2019s get back to the gold thing.
\nRagnar:<\/b> I\u2019d be happy to, I love gold!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well we can agree on that! Which, again\u2026 going to note that primarily villains are obsessed with hoarding gold.
\nRagnar:<\/b> But I\u2019m not a villain.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Right right, no we\u2019re not getting into that argument again. I just wanted to ask again\u2026 why gold?
\nRagnar:<\/b> It\u2019s objectively valuable!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> But it isn\u2019t.
\nRagnar:<\/b> Sure it is! Gold is and always will be valuable exactly like it is right now. Unlike that wicked paper money.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Okay I know something about this, I\u2019ve had plenty of plans involving gold before! One time I invented a machine that would destroy all paper currency\u2026
\nRagnar:<\/b> Man that sounds like a great machine!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Again, we\u2019re not getting into the whole \u2018you\u2019re really a villain\u2019 argument here but seriously let me finish. Okay so my plan was to destroy the economy by getting rid of paper money and then replacing commerce with gold coins that I minted myself with my face on them. I was particularly proud of that bit.
\nRagnar:<\/b> Seems legitimate.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Yeah but after the plan was thwarted by those fools at GI Joe I realized it probably wouldn\u2019t have worked anyway because being the person who destroyed the economy there would be a.) little left for me to buy what with society collapsing and b.) people probably wouldn\u2019t sell it to me anyway because of spite, and also with little to buy the gold I was flooding into the market probably wouldn\u2019t be worth anything.
\nRagnar:<\/b> I\u2019m not following you here. It\u2019s gold, people would always trade for it at exactly the exchange rate it is being traded for right now.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Yeah but they wouldn\u2019t. If you completely destroy the world\u2019s economy and all the governments collapse people are probably going back to trade and barter, so commodities and manufactured goods are going to be the medium of exchange, not gold. I suppose some people might accept gold, but if you say\u2026 were the only person in the world who still had a working milk farm you could just charge 100 gold bars for a bottle of milk because where else are people going to go?
\nRagnar:<\/b> But\u2026 I routinely sell commodities and manufactured goods for large piles of gold\u2026
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Yes and you\u2019ve said you\u2019ve been doing these deals with known criminals right?
\nRagnar:<\/b>\u2026
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Seriously, they are\u2026 look I kind of feel bad to break this to you Ragnar but these guys are completely taking advantage of you. They\u2019re taking tons of valuable goods that you stole in exchange for completely worthless gold that they realize is going to be completely valueless in the coming collapse of society.
\nRagnar:<\/b> But\u2026 I\u2019m\u2026 I\u2019m a big scary pirate. And really smart\u2026
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Sure you are\u2026 look, I don\u2019t usually do this but, now I feel kind of bad for you\u2026 Hey c\u2019mon why don\u2019t we paint some snakes on your boat, attach a few red lasers to it and you can come work for me alright?
\nRagnar:<\/b> But what would you want me to do? I\u2019ve never worked for a villain before.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Oh don\u2019t worry it\u2019s easy! You just do literally the exact same thing you are doing now, only shout \u2018COBRAAAAAA\u2019 while you do it, think you can handle that?
\nRagnar:<\/b> COBRAAAAAA!!!!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Ha ha, great!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on Atlas Shrugged: Goldbuggery. Cobra Commander: Okay Ragnar let\u2019s get back to the gold thing. Ragnar: I\u2019d be happy to, I love gold! Cobra Commander: Well we can agree on that! Which, again\u2026 going to note that primarily villains are obsessed with hoarding gold. Ragnar: But I\u2019m not a villain. Cobra Commander: Right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1308,"featured_media":0,"parent":9712,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9727","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Cobra Commander Dialogues: II.VII.2 - Daylight Atheism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Originally posted on Atlas Shrugged: Goldbuggery. Cobra Commander: Okay Ragnar let's get back to the gold thing. 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