The value of metal isn’t arbitrary,bits valuable because the metal is actually valuable. You can use copper for electronics, silver for medical instruments, gold for all kinds of things from semiconductors to low impedance buses.

There is no deflation of metal currencies or inflation. This is a common lie of corporate sellsmen trying to sell everyone into their pyramid scheme. The value slowly drifts over time and it is possible for the value to change more significantly with the discovery of new sources or technology which makes extracting easier. The point is though that compared to fiat currencies, it’s extremely stable and over generations. This makes the currency truly valuable, something people can save and give to their grandkids and it will be roughly the same value. People can retire for example without ever needing to put their money at mercy to the rich in speculation markets.

What is actually happening is the economy is growing but it’s being spread across all the currency holders, not just sucked up by the state and the corporate class. The is what you call deflation, but it’s what I would call economic appreciation. Simply put prices have to meet workers halfway.

The only real downside compared to fiat currency, and this is really the only one in actuality, is that money is harder to obtain without producing something of real value. This means that governments can not spend money to stimulate the economy, and the economy cannot carry massive amounts of debts which cannot be realized effectively. Interest rates would be high because interests would have to cover the people who default.

This is not a bad thing, this is an honest economy. It would be hard to imagine a modern economy operating like this, because it’s so fueled by cheap debt and wasteful spending, and huge bureaucracies, but those things come at the expense of the worker, who has the least bargaining power of all. With a hard currency, whatever a worker wants is honest. It can’t be stolen from them. It can’t be taxed outside of income effectively without near extortion/Mafia level tax schemes.

The middle class would absolutely thrive under this system, because they would possess one of the most valuable things under a hard currency system, labor. Since a worker is paid wages, they cannot really be duped by people. Once that money is in their hands that value has passed to them.

This also fixes so many other issues, like economic bubbles, economic instabilities and recessions and depressions. It fixes the value of hard assets like land since people have to pay taxes on land if they own a lot, where workers should have property taxes, only businesses that deal in commercial selling of land, people can actually afford land.

It would cause all kinds of issues with the way the economy is currently set up. Massive mega corporations would be bankrupt nearly overnight. Since they aren’t actually producing much real value for their costs. The stock market would tank, requiring the state step in and subsidize basic necessities for a few years, maybe even a generation. People would make a run on the stock market to withdraw their retirements they foolishly gambled with, trying to beat inflation.

Yet at the end of it, you would be left with a healthy and functioning economy. A small upper class, a large middle class, and a mild class of poverty striken people.

This could be handled pretty well by giving back half of all tax revenues in the form of UBI equally to everyone and setting up public clinics instead of having the extremely expensive Medicare system. You could offer doctors an abolition of their taxes and UBI to work there for the more meager wages, to encourage lots of high quality and older doctors to work there after they have acquired some private wealth that they would like to protect more from taxation. The federal bank instead of giving loans to banks, could give loans to people to build small affordable house. People can get one per lifetime and have the payment garnished from their wages or UBI. That way you could stimulate the economy more in times and also help to keep house prices low, so that the average worker can actually aquire wealth and raise up in class over generations.

This is how an economy should be designed. Freemarket socialism, fair and level taxes, hard currencies, UBI instead of welfare, public funding of private education that is the students choice, publicly owned infrastructure, utilities, and a cost effective public healthcare system that provides basic care, access to cheap medicine, and pain management for end of life care if people are poor.

With UBI and the state helping everyone get an apartment without high taxation, the economy would both thrive and everyone would have some basic social security. People would not have to work if they lived a meager lifestyle and could eat and acquire basic necessities. This would also make the labor market honest. Nobody would choose to work unless the wages were mutually beneficial. Most people would be happy. Women could stay home and raise children without being stuck in poverty and an argument away from homelessness or virtual prostitution with people having free time to pursue other things besides work, culture would thrive, technology would thrive and people would be happy, and also the economy would thrive because we would produce the best works on the planet.

This starts with cutting the rich off the tit of the tax payer. Cutting the materialistic geriatrics off the tit of the working person. This starts with people rejecting Reganomics and embracing free market private socialism instead of stupid communism or stupid capitalism fueled by fiat and authoritarianism.

I know economics not reganomics. I don’t follow your political economics education. I deal in truth.

It’s easy enough to at least partially prove because the same people who teach you Reganomics also have a proven track record of making the economy worse over decades. There hasn’t been hardly any growth in 50 years. Easy to verify by calculating the true value of GDP in 1970 and now, by taking the price of commodities and valuing your GDP by that. These same people are the ones who teach this new age economic bullshit when just studying a little bit of history and using true values not fiat values, and you will see that every mistake the U.S has made since leaving the gold standard has lead to exactly the same results time and time again. It always leads to collapse, it always leads to wages rising slower then prices. That’s the whole point of a fiat currency, is to let extremely inefficient corporations that produce almost no value and have unmotivated underpaid workforces survive in a semi free market. This by the way destroys prices. The reason you can’t afford a house is because any real asset that holds value and is inflation proof sores through the roof faster than even combined inflation. This is because these banks and corporations which could never exist in a honest and free economy have unlimited leverage from low interest loans and tax deductible debt, so they never have to give assets back to the working people except under extremely exploitative terms.

Your entire economy is a mess, and the people running it don’t have a clue how economics works, including your economics professors at these corporate funded universities who just spread nonsense to protect corporate profits and keep everyone in a virtual hostage situation where their retirement can get wiped out in microseconds on the stock market. It’s a bunch of bullshit and I’m really sick of people who literally don’t have a single clue what they are talking about, trying to explain economics to me, when I studied this for years on my own so I could figure out what is really going on and what really works, and surprise the entire economy is a giant scam. The biggest scam in history. Fiat currency is literally the biggest racket in history.

Don’t remember the section in the constitution where it gave the federal government the right to dictate someone’s gender identity.

I bet I’m not the only one who had an imaginary friend growing up only to realize it was myself later in life.

I had my first two guns in my room when I was 6, but that was the 90s. I wasn’t allowed to play with them for the first few weeks until my parents were sure that I knew how to handle them safely. This was a time before the internet though and people didn’t really have these concepts of guns being some evil and super dangerous thing. A gun is only really dangerous in the hands of a bad person or someone who doesn’t know how to handle them properly. Where I grew up it was just considered a fact of life. The younger you could get kids out in the woods hunting the better. I would bring home squirrels and rabbits to eat when I was like 7-8 years old. This was just the norm for most of human history but modern humans have lost touch with these things.

The only thing my dad really taught me was to check a gun every time I picked it up, to never assume it was unloaded. To make sure I knew what was behind what I was shooting, so I didn’t shoot someone’s house, and to keep it unchambered until I need to use it. Those 3 basic rules were good enough for me. I knew they were dangerous and to not play with them too much.

Just because you don’t like guns doesn’t mean you should ruin some innocent person’s life over it. Law should not be about power and crushing your political opponents.

That being said, it is very likely that she was neglectful of her child if he is 6 and wants to shoot his teacher, but honestly that’s something I could see myself doing when I was 6. I hated being in school, and from the kids perspective he is basically being forced into slavery by the state, and the teachers are making it nearly impossible for him to live his life as he wants. It’s not all that crazy when you realize that people have different perspectives. We live in a society where killing is considered bad, but we also normalize the idea of basically forcing children into prisons. I don’t think the kid is wrong. He is being forced there against his will, and obviously he doesn’t want to be in that class if he is willing to kill his teacher, but idk the details. There could also be some dumb or immoral reason for doing it. It’s very likely when they are 6. There is really no good reason for a 6 year old to be away from their parents. Its too young and we as a society have become so greedy that we are willing to accept these things so people can buy more stuff. One of the parents should be raising a child and not working if they are having children. Our society has failed Inca big way by doing this and it causes all kinds of negative effects on society.

I think if there was a warning that the kid had a gun, the principal probably should have taken it from him and called his mother and asked why their kid is bringing guns to school? Definitely seems like mostly a failure of the administration, but since the mother in in prison for four years, I’m assuming she was a drug addict or something and not feeding or comforting her child, which probably exacerbated it, but then again just speculation.

I guess the point is, from my limited knowledge of the event, just a headline, it seems like things probably worked out correctly in the case.

Wealth taxes are legitimately terrible. The only thing they will really hurt is the upper middle class. Most billionaires have their wealth tied up in unrealized gains for exactly this reason, to avoid taxes. Wealth taxes that target the upper middle class only really serve to reduce the class of the common people. It hurts people in high cost of living areas more.

A better system is,

Get rid of fiat currencies, and state currencies in general. Have metal coins with fixed weights. This will fix the economy and Improve it after an initial economic collapse as the bubbles pop. It will force the state to balance the budget and get rid of economic instability and Inflation so long as we export the same value as we import.

Create a public healthcare system to provide basic coverage alongside the private system. Don’t make it too expensive but provide basic care, and also pain treatment to people at the end of life. Subsidize competition in domestic drug markets to achieve low costs on drugs and use eminent domain to buy some patents.

With the hard currency you can have self funded unemployment insurance and pensions, and disability can be a separate program funded by income taxes.

Make business sales, and income tax the same, so if people vote to raise or lower taxes, it affects everyone equally. A better system would be to automatically generate the tax rate based on what voters vote for and get rid of state debt period. People have no right to be putting their children in debt to pay for their excessive lifestyles anyways.

Without fiat currencies, there wouldn’t really be billionaires in the first place. There would be plenty of rich people, just not 10,000x richer than the average person.

Unfortunately voters vote for terrible things, for the past 25+ years in America, voters have consistently voted for mass surveillance, expanding executive power, expanding the police state, adding more laws to the books, inflation, corporate loopholes, and unlimited private anonymous money to fund political campaigns. It really starts with the voters first. They will have to learn to stop voting for trash politicians.

Thank you, that is very kind of you. I love that word. That is a very cynical take from me and I should probably be a bit more fair, but it’s not that far off from the truth.

The people who run these scams don’t necessarily realize they are doing it. They do to some extent, but even billionaires believe in capitalism in that kind of way.

I thought about writing little essays or making YouTube videos to kind of share what I consider to be lost knowledge and lost sciences. I should probably do that some day. Like actually write it out in more theoretical ways in a more compiled form.

It’s good for some things, messaging, banking, background play, etc. just the less you have the less apps will destroy your battery and your network connection.

I wouldn’t buy rockstar products anyways, they are terrible and intentionally break Linux support.

They did it first and the only way to fight it is to do the same with this type of thing. We will have no democratic power if we don’t fight election rigging

I stopped buying that stuff ten years ago. Indie games are always better these days

The people who use terms like lesbian agenda, almost certainly want a woman as a maid to scrub their undies for 50 years.

Thxs I try to teach real economics when I can because people can’t learn this in universities or anything.

Fundamentally it all comes down to unemployment. There is a certain point in a thermodynamic way that even the most brainwashed slaves stop becoming productive. If you don’t have a safe and private place to sleep, it’s enormously taxing on your motivation, if you can’t afford nutrients, you will be physically tired and your body will scream at you to avoid any type of damage to itself, greatly lowerering your productivity that even a mostly post scarcity and automated economy can’t even support you, even if you work 60 hours a week for meager wages.

For bubbles, they exist mostly to make rich people richer, but come at the cost of workers getting more inflation and weaker purchasing power for their wages. Every so often bubbles have to pop, so the rich can buy up all the property they sold back, at a discount and start the process over. One of the many scams of international capitalism.

So the bubble really pops when people are unable to work for the dropping wages. It’s really just a physics question in a way. Not really a choice they make, because people who work often tie their entire identity into working and being a “good working citizen” as the media conditions them to think. It’s just physics. The bubble popping is the reality of things like markets correcting themselves.

What comes after is often a die off of workers causing their value to go up, since human sacrifice is the only way they can collectively bargain anymore. Then an eventual resettling with lower wages after prices are forced to not track inflation. This is why a house is 30% cheaper then it was in the 70s in gold price, but people need on average 10+ years wages to buy one. The prices of houses gradually came down over time as the workers made less money in real value(gold, silver, minerals, commodities), year after year for decades. The market is forced to lower the prices of houses just enough to get some suckers to buy them. Again, workers can’t just make money magically appear like the rich can, so there is a physical limit to how much a worker can pay before they quite literally starve, or develop severe health issues from eating potatoes for decades.

So the two poles of American style economics is physical constraints of reality, like the workers bodies ability to survive on potatoes and bread and sugar, and not having a mental breakdown because they live on a couch, and the greed of the rich who are completely self centered and want boats and mansions and most importantly, to be seen as valuable via their status and access to wealth and resources. These two poles form the tension in which the economy operates. The really sad part is, that this is probably an improvement over most of human history. Technology has made the lives of the average worker much better, despite capitalism taking every opportunity it can to try to squeeze more out of them, or keep them too miserable to resist.

If you run an android device, or any other computer that doesn’t allow the user to do basic things like close apps. You should make use of the battery optimization settings.

On android every app that you don’t want real time updates from should be set to restricted battery mode, and background data to off.

The only time you need background data is for real time updates or background play in apps like YouTube or Spotify.

This feature will almost certainly get removed in the future if history is any indication, so enjoy having decent battery life and better networking performance while it lasts.

The lesbian agenda to not be a piece of meat for men.

Hmm the way Satan is portrayed in the old testament is like a prosecutor for God. The New testament mentions a few characters sort of like that. The whore of Babylon, Lucifer, the dragon, etc.

I have always been sort of open-minded about the idea of Lucifer,because the people who always seem to want you to hate him and have bad things to say about him/her, always seem to be exactly the types of people I dont like. Considering the Catholic Church for example, ruled over a slave infested hellhole of public torture and execution and brainwashing, I kind of feel like Lucifer is probably the good guy since they hate him/her so much. Idk tho. Not really that religious anymore.

There is a sort of old belief that Lucifer rules over earth and God over heaven. This is based in old folk beliefs of Christianity before it was made into a religion and stuff. One place this shows up in the Bible is when Moses dies, God and the devil are sort of arguing over who gets the soul of Moses.

The idea of hell is mostly a medieval concept to sort of sell the more institutionalized version of Christianity to the masses and emphasize the punishment part, which was necessary when the religion started to become the backbone of the power structure of medieval society. At the time when Christ lived, the Jews didn’t really believe in an afterlife. They believed in a place where souls rested, but it was dark and miserable. The greeks had hades and some other places depending on how good your soul was.

Well believe it or not, we are not a hive organism with one consciousness. We vary from person to person like any other human being.

Generally a smile and warmth is much appreciated. Many of us need a bit of affection from strangers. It’s nice to know some people dont mind coexisting with us.

On the flip side, for those of us becoming female, and on estrogen, we tend to feel and think more like women so things can come off as creepy quick if someone is sort of lingering or being pushy. A smile and a wave or just general warmth is very welcome however.

Android is getting really terrible in general, whoever they have designing the UI is not good at their jobs. The thing I hate the most is now you have to open the side menu to open your contacts in the contacts app. It’s so annoying. Add several seconds to every instance of making a call.