gandalf_der_12te

No this is ~~patrick~~ Lemmy.

one state solution

Basically i've always had a personal hatred for single-family homes. I grew up in one, and i hated it. My parents moved into the middle of freaking nowhere when i was born, the neighborhood was dull, it was somewhere in the countryside, you couldn't go anywhere without driving a car, my mother was always angry and tired and refused to drive me 90% of the time, and when she did drive me, annoyances always happened (like, i'd say to a friend i'd meet them at 3pm, and it's a 10 minute drive, and we start driving at 2:40pm, and then my mother remembers she has to go grocery shopping first, which takes 45 minutes, and she does that before dropping me off at my friend's place, stuff like that). It was frustrating.

In the countryside, you're dependent on fossil fuels. You're dependent on putting that transparent fluid in your car's tank day-after-day, which i suspect is a method of mind-controlling the people, because it makes the people feel dependent on some kind of infrastructure (gas station) that they don't understand. I mean, where does petroleum come from? have you ever seen it produced? the people can't produce it locally, so they're dependent on the government's goodwill that it continues to be provided to them.

if the people had solar panels, a whole lot of things would be less shit. people would feel somewhat more self-reliant, being able to produce their own energy and all, and i guess that would improve people's self-esteem a lot.

anyways, i've always had a very hatred of the single-family home. it has 1000 m³, of which you realistically need about 300 for 4 people, for a kitchen, a toilet, a shower, and beds. the extra room is to brag to your neighbors ("what would the neighbors think if we were poor!") and mostly to cause yourself a lot of stress while you're trying to clean that whole space, while you could instead just chill and relax. but i guess relaxing means that you have to face your inner emotions, and we can't have that! (according to the people i've met)

Money, no matter how much of it you have or believe you have is only as valuable as everyone believes it to be.

It’s a modern day religion.

the thing that causes the dollar to have value is the fact that the US government demands that the people pay a certain amount of taxes in USdollars. if you can't pay that, you go to jail.

so, the dollar is an extension of military power. they're forcing you to do something, but instead of sending the military to your door directly and abducting you, they instead require that you either have a certain amount of dollars or they will send the military/police to your door. it's a placeholder for military power.

he’ll be thrilled to roll out Trumpcoin as the alternative and then rugpull the world a second time.

for a currency to have actual value, some government with real (military) power must demand that currency via taxation. otherwise, at least theoretically, the paper currency has no actual value.

We’re witnessing the reemergence of a multi-polar world. The dollar will take a hit. It’s not the end of dollarization.

the thing is that if the US really goes through balkanization, that puts an absolute end to the US dollar.

If Trump takes over the FED, the US economy will go into an absolute tailspin and depression.

I think you're completely underestimating what Trump taking over the FED could do. he could literally print arbitrary amounts of money and spend them however he wants. it would basically make money meaningless, and we'd probably go back to trading goods-for-goods after a while, but short-term, it would give trump unlimited economic power and that is a very very very frightening thing.

i fucking warned about this

Most of the experts who have worked within the Fed or studied it closely have never contemplated what could happen if an institution with so much unchecked power came under the control of one man.

I literally talked about this 4 months ago.

Basically, if trump gets a hold of the central bank, it's over. The only way stopping arbitrary trumpian outcomes then is to completely de-dollarize the world (!!!). Imagine what that means.

to be honest, i have been a fan of a (slow) de-dollarization for many years now. it's just rapidly becoming way more urgent all of a sudden. we're not even remotely there yet. there is still way too much dependency on the dollar for so many things. we need to change that. but changing that would require change in so many things, including a broad overhaul of worldwide neoliberal agenda.

neoliberalism is already on the decline worldwide, but there's still a long way to go.

trickle up method

yep, 100%, i gotta remember that phrase.

I know this is a lot of math but this is my tax plan:

• The government prints money and gives it out to the people, but has to tax it back at some point to create real demand for the currency, otherwise the currency devalues and becomes meaningless.
• Since the government has to sooner or later tax back all money it hands out, the total government balance is always close to 0; i.e. there's no substantial government debt.
• The government hands out the money directly to the people. It is really a hand-out and not a loan-out. Big banks can also take credits, but these are loans, not hand-outs.
• The people continue to spend their money for products. A low sales tax would mean higher amount of sales and therefore higher revenue for companies.
• The companies get money from sales, but the companies can't meaningfully profit. If they profit, where does the money go? The shareholders can't invest that money anywhere meaningfully, since the market is already fully grown and new investments simply aren't worth that much. So, since profits are less meaningful, the company lowers their sales price to reduce profit, which in turn increases sales amount. As the company profits converges to zero, all the company's income is spent on expenses - either labor expenses or expenses in materials.
• The materials either come from agricultural farms, or from mining operations. Since these two can also be looked at as companies, the same applies and they will eventually lower their profit to the point where all their expenses go either towards wages or material expenses.
• The lower that sales taxes are, the longer the journey of the dollar is before it finally gets taxed back by the government.

wealth taxes and handouts to the people would stimulate consumerism and make the economy run hot.

and it should start at lower levels of wealth.

no. otherwise you end up with the AfD (or Heute zeitung) who says it damages the "small man" and should therefore not be implemented.

it's intentionally this high, so it doesn't affect 99% of the people. sothat there's a broad democratic support. that is the whole point of it.