Bet that old timer loves his Medicare and social security, though. Lmfao

The pandemic showed that a huge percentage of our work is literately bullshit used to keep us grinding away and not actually living life. And to keep us from dealing with the huge and glaring problems in our society.

The Puritan idea that we must slave away in order to be worthy is a lie.

One of the greatest economists, Keynes, expected us to be working 15-20 hours a week at this point because of productivity increases.

But instead of sharing in the blessing of productivity, we were forced to do an increasing amount of meaningless work and spend less time actually living, all while being shackled with debt rather than even increasing our pay.

A pretty garbage system if you ask me.

Just so you know, that brown thing is called a cornucopia! Literally "horn of abundance" in Latin.

"The law of the jungle".

So they must mean the one where we work cooperatively together to survive, since banding together has been the thing that kept us alive the most?

Or do they mean the "law" where we band together and purposefully exterminate entities like them which threaten our survival?

Maybe they should pull their houses out of this predicament by their boot straps

The black man on the supreme court might want to rethink the stance on going with "history and tradition".

Or maybe he thinks his vote should only count as 3/5 of a vote?

Oh right. It will be cherry picked bullshit that fits whatever corrupted crap they want to force onto all of us.

Except that's a sham way of framing things that most people use.

The US is monetarily sovereign and can always issue enough currency to meet any demands upon it.

Uncle Sam doesn't go around collecting dollars like a beggar to apply to things. It creates money directly through spending, or backstops the creation of demand deposits by private banks via the reserve system. Money has to be created before it can be destroyed through taxation.

The issue isn't, "Where will we get the money?"

The REAL issue is, "Will we have the infrastructure to care for our elderly?"

Warren Mosler goes over this in one of his better short pieces of literature.

https://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

These people are basically monsters.

They've knowingly and willingly set their greed above everyone and everything living on the planet.

Literal cartoon villain style shit. Knowingly stymying climate research, funding what are essentially disinformation campaigns... All for greed and selfishness.

I weep for the future and for what the children of today will never get to have because of monsters like this.

My doctor diagnosed me with a b-12 deficiency. Something easily fixed with a shot she prescribed.

The pharmacist looked at me like I was a drug addict when I asked where the needle for the injection was when I picked up the scrip. "Just have the doctor do it".

Fee for randomly showing up to my doctor to get the shot? $0

Fee for getting the shot done when I was actively at a scheduled check up? $130

I take an oral supplement instead now that's not quite as effective.

I love cereal but that shit has zero staying power. It is noting remotely like a full meal.

There are way better things if I want some brinner

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

I feel like % doesn't really drive home just how many people around us this is.

6.8/100 is 3.4/50.

Over 3 people out of every 50.

That's a lot of people.

"They don't teach my intellectually unsound, experimentally unverified viewpoint at the learning place!"

And I'm considered a snowflake for having and expressing human emotions. Jfc

Because the national "debt" is the number of dollars that haven't been destroyed through taxation.

https://realprogressives.org/debt-ceilings-for-dummies/

Coin tricks. Especially knuckle rolling coins and learning how to change the position of the coin between various palming techniques.

Except a nation with no debt and a negative trade balance has negative wealth.

The government debt is the private sector surplus when there a negative trade balance.

The government is literally the source of money. Every dollar created is part of that "debt".

Every dollar is an IOU issued by the federal government that it will be accepted to relieve tax obligations.

" Zero national debt " means zero dollars left in circulation after taxation.

It's not real currency, it's a token.

I can't use it to pay my taxes to the US federal government and it must be traded in for actual currency to do so.

Just like a token at an arcade.

They are also vehicles of wild speculation... And unlike stocks (where I gain partial ownership of a company) and bonds (where I gain a claim on their monetary inflows and primacy if the venture crumbles), crypto gives me... What exactly?

I don't get to be an owner or a creditor. I become... Holder of a mining incentive?

I'm sorry it's not what a lot of people seem to think it is.

If you're taking water and putting it in a closed loop, you're effectively removing it from the natural water cycle until you remove it from said closed loop, no?

I agree the articles make it sound more like they are just burning water out of existence lol.

It's not about the rich paying their fair share.

We need to tax them specifically to reduce their insane power in our system.

The federal government doesn't need them to finance a damn thing. It can finance anything it wants to with the stroke of a pen.

We are not reliant on the rich.

I didn't think it was controversial to use math to reduce numbers. TIL