i think society would be better if they just handed out money to people no questions asked, but i suppose it's true some people might use it to be happy
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they literally can't run out of money they're the government they can just make more of it "but what about inflation" buddy we literally cannot run out of numbers
@aeva Inflation isn't a bad thing! It's stagnation of wages relative to inflation that causes problems, but if someone is handing out money so that people can live and be happy without needing to have their souls crushed in the gears of capitalism, then they can just hand out more of it!
Problem solved!
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they literally can't run out of money they're the government they can just make more of it "but what about inflation" buddy we literally cannot run out of numbers
@aeva europe is so liberal democrat brain-dead, they made a law saying none of them can print money. The central bank can print money but only to the banks. The bank then lend money to the states.
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@aeva europe is so liberal democrat brain-dead, they made a law saying none of them can print money. The central bank can print money but only to the banks. The bank then lend money to the states.
@gkrnours basically a failed society
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@aeva I do get being worried about inflation if you increase the total money number but there is actually a really simple solution to that problem, which is to take the money from people who have way too much of it, and then give it to people who have way too little. this keeps the total amount of money the same and makes sure everyone has enough money. has anyone tried this
@halcy easiest way to do this is just hand out more money to everyone until being rich is just a rounding error
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@aeva "but then if I have savings they get less valuable over time"
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@Kathee_HDS @aeva win-win scenario
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they literally can't run out of money they're the government they can just make more of it "but what about inflation" buddy we literally cannot run out of numbers
"but how will we force people to work without the threat of poverty" buddy it's not like I'm gonna stop making video games
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they literally can't run out of money they're the government they can just make more of it "but what about inflation" buddy we literally cannot run out of numbers
@aeva basically modern monetary theory
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they literally can't run out of money they're the government they can just make more of it "but what about inflation" buddy we literally cannot run out of numbers
@aeva I really wish folks were taught MMT in school, cause the stupid debt debate gets used everywhere in politics to push bullshit
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they literally can't run out of money they're the government they can just make more of it "but what about inflation" buddy we literally cannot run out of numbers
@aeva the ghost of Maggie thatcher circles this post with her insane ideas
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"but how will we force people to work without the threat of poverty" buddy it's not like I'm gonna stop making video games
@aeva i would be better at working if i had never been ground beneath the threat of poverty
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@gkrnours basically a failed society
@aeva one thing I don't understand is they keep talking of privatising to allow for concurrence. I don't see why an unregulated couldn't be in concurrence with a regulated one. Like sure, 10 years ago, france had massive investment in power and actor coming to the maeket had none so competing would have been hard but that's the market. Instead they split the power making and power selling, forced selling power at cost for 10 years so other could invest. Spoiler, they made no invest, only profit
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they literally can't run out of money they're the government they can just make more of it "but what about inflation" buddy we literally cannot run out of numbers
@aeva as Keynes used to say, "anything we can actually do, we can afford"
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@aeva one thing I don't understand is they keep talking of privatising to allow for concurrence. I don't see why an unregulated couldn't be in concurrence with a regulated one. Like sure, 10 years ago, france had massive investment in power and actor coming to the maeket had none so competing would have been hard but that's the market. Instead they split the power making and power selling, forced selling power at cost for 10 years so other could invest. Spoiler, they made no invest, only profit
@aeva ok, it's not entirely true. A few cooperative did investment in wind and solar farm and seems to be profitable.
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"but how will we force people to work without the threat of poverty" buddy it's not like I'm gonna stop making video games
@aeva they might stop making video game for PS5, focusing on linux and wii and maybe PS4 if it has a nice homebrew setup
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@aeva they might stop making video game for PS5, focusing on linux and wii and maybe PS4 if it has a nice homebrew setup
@aeva (reasoning is linux is free of slopware, wii are ubiquitous, PS4 offer nice visual in a package cheaper than a desktop computer)
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@aeva (reasoning is linux is free of slopware, wii are ubiquitous, PS4 offer nice visual in a package cheaper than a desktop computer)
@gkrnours i've got bad news about linux https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html
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@aeva the ghost of Maggie thatcher circles this post with her insane ideas
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@aeva basically modern monetary theory
@pearofdoom i don't think any government has yet implemented my "just hand out money to anyone who wants it, literally anybody, no questions asked" policy
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"but how will we force people to work without the threat of poverty" buddy it's not like I'm gonna stop making video games
ok i saw that post going around about how nobody can fucking read but come on guys this is not at all the status quo of neoliberal economics take your head out of your ass
