I would count on them being hypocritical. The rich will just use Starlink.

I just give them a thumbs up.

After dismissing email chains and getting them all on Facebook, I’m never going to dismiss their ways again.

forever inflation

The problem isn’t some inflation or deflation. It’s having constantly positive inflation, the levers for which are pulled by insiders. At best they’re trying to prevent all forest fires, and the dry brush keeps accumulating until we get a fire too big to put out. At worst they’re just picking whichever interest rates they’ve been bribed to pick.

Corporate profits keep going up, CEO pay keeps going up, inequality keeps going up, but real income has not kept up at all. We aren’t the beneficiaries of inflationary monetary policy. It’s functional wealth extraction, not incompetent management.

This isn’t what Keynes wanted at all. He expected the inflation money would go towards public works and we’d have a 15-hour work week, not funding bond holders and a gradually increasing work week. We adopted half of his rationale as a post hoc rationalization for the Nixon Shock.

What we’ve got now is even more broken! Forever inflation is not a good idea.

What’s the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire?

Billionaires were literally created by inflation. It’s why you invest with them.

How about we temporarily help you until you stop complaining, and then repeal it later?

Their economic reasons are superstitious nonsense. It’s always been about siphoning wealth from the working class. The purpose of a system is what it does.

I for one welcome our melanin-pigmented overlords.

If they’re billing in Monero, then I have to wonder if this machine does funner things than just cleaning you.

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As a parent, I ban my own kids from Roblox. Because it’s my job to protect my own children, not the government’s job to treat everyone like children. This policy would put my children in more danger because they’ll need free speech once they’re adults.

They’re arguing against absolutes, like that sithy quote itself.