September 11, 2011
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become ‘profiteers,’ who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
John Maynard Keynes
September 1, 2011
At City of Westminster College: “Just walking by ”

At City of Westminster College: “Just walking by ”

August 28, 2011
At Pier1: “Enthusiastic salesman”

At Pier1: “Enthusiastic salesman”

August 24, 2011
At Louvre: “No line at the pictured entrance ”

At Louvre: “No line at the pictured entrance ”

July 10, 2011
July 9, 2011
Shilin Night Market 士林夜市

I’m at Shilin Night Market 士林夜市 (Taipei City)

One of the largest and most well known night markets in Taiwan. It has a wide variety of local Taiwanese food and shopping and is a favorite destination for Taipei resident’s and tourists.

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July 8, 2011
TPE Taiwan Taoyuan International

I’m at TPE Taiwan Taoyuan International

“How much money should I convert? Maybe $200? 30 TWD fee. ”

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Vietnam airport

I’m at Vietnam airport (Ho Chi Minh City)

“Taking off!”

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SGN Tan Son Nhat International Airport

I’m at SGN Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Ho Chi Minh City)

“Now waiting at gate 15, over an hour to spare. Time from door of house to gate inside airport: 43 minutes. I took xe ôm. Taxi may take a little longer. ”

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July 1, 2011
Citi Plaza

I’m at Citi Plaza (Ho Chi Minh City)

“The store here sells markers. The whiteboard markers and permanent markers are right next to each other, with very similar packaging -_-”

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