Within what period? I didn't see anything to that effect.
I went to school with a combination of several years working a crappy full time job and some conventional loans, so I only know about this stuff second hand.
I went to school with a combination of several years working a crappy full time job and some conventional loans, so I only know about this stuff second hand.
Usury generally refers to high interest, but it appears that the subsidized rate is about 5%. That isn't usury. Right now, it's a negative real interest rate, they're paying you for the privilege of you owing them money.
Let's see if this works...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTU_eL75Ako
"Ryan Cohen Slaughters Meme Stocks FOMO Sheep!"
Federally insured loans that have some of the lowest interest rates available aren't usury. They're just a bad idea.
There's a number of ways to get taxpayer money to people without ever involving customers. There are of course no bid contracts, but there's also forgivable loan guarantees given to preferred businesses or industries, or direct subsidies and grants. You can just create some false program only your "charity arm" could possibly administer to hand the company giving you kickbacks a billion dollars. And as I will explain later, those are just the honest direct ways of putting money in someone's pocket.
Tax is more than just income tax. It's also sales tax, tarrifs, gas taxes, carbon taxes, debt we never intend to pay back and debt monetization which leads to inflation. Put it all together and the government takes an overwhelming proportion of what we earn.
The inflation tax in particular is basically a poor person tax, a middle-class tax, a working class tax. Rich people who own assets see their assets continuously rise with inflation as part of the process of buying and selling in an open market, poor people who actually have to work for their money find that they have to keep on fighting for raises just to keep the same quality of living, and in the meantime their taxes keep going up because they're making more money putting them into new brackets.
Monetary policy is another great way to extract wealth out of the masses and hand them to the wealthy. You don't need to directly hand the money to the wealthy, just make sure that the rich are good and liquid, and the poor aren't, and basically make a promise to the investment class that you're going to make sure their numbers always go up, so they can take as much risk as they want while the working class and the middle class tiptoe over broken glass, one wrong step meaning you lose everything.
Tesla's a really good example. Tesla is the world's smallest car company. They hardly make any cars, they hardly sell any cars, they hardly have any revenue, and there's absolutely no indication that they're going to have very much future revenue. Their main product is Tesla stock. Elon musk became the richest person in the world because there's so much money sloshing around in financial markets it had to go somewhere, and he happened to be the lightning rod. It's fairly unlikely that he became the lightning rod entirely by chance. He got deals on factories and preferential treatment in regulations, definitely preferential treatment and how his companies are presented by the state and the state influenced arms of the media, and so it just became the place to send your money, and because it becomes the place to send your money, it grows, which makes it more the place to send your money. This would never have happened if we hadn't had 15 years of extraordinarily accommodative monetary policy and given explicit and implicit guarantees to the world's richest people that they will never see their numbers go down.
I could go on, forever. I published a book for a reason, because I have a lot to say. But that's enough for now.
Tax is more than just income tax. It's also sales tax, tarrifs, gas taxes, carbon taxes, debt we never intend to pay back and debt monetization which leads to inflation. Put it all together and the government takes an overwhelming proportion of what we earn.
The inflation tax in particular is basically a poor person tax, a middle-class tax, a working class tax. Rich people who own assets see their assets continuously rise with inflation as part of the process of buying and selling in an open market, poor people who actually have to work for their money find that they have to keep on fighting for raises just to keep the same quality of living, and in the meantime their taxes keep going up because they're making more money putting them into new brackets.
Monetary policy is another great way to extract wealth out of the masses and hand them to the wealthy. You don't need to directly hand the money to the wealthy, just make sure that the rich are good and liquid, and the poor aren't, and basically make a promise to the investment class that you're going to make sure their numbers always go up, so they can take as much risk as they want while the working class and the middle class tiptoe over broken glass, one wrong step meaning you lose everything.
Tesla's a really good example. Tesla is the world's smallest car company. They hardly make any cars, they hardly sell any cars, they hardly have any revenue, and there's absolutely no indication that they're going to have very much future revenue. Their main product is Tesla stock. Elon musk became the richest person in the world because there's so much money sloshing around in financial markets it had to go somewhere, and he happened to be the lightning rod. It's fairly unlikely that he became the lightning rod entirely by chance. He got deals on factories and preferential treatment in regulations, definitely preferential treatment and how his companies are presented by the state and the state influenced arms of the media, and so it just became the place to send your money, and because it becomes the place to send your money, it grows, which makes it more the place to send your money. This would never have happened if we hadn't had 15 years of extraordinarily accommodative monetary policy and given explicit and implicit guarantees to the world's richest people that they will never see their numbers go down.
I could go on, forever. I published a book for a reason, because I have a lot to say. But that's enough for now.
You don't need a lack of ec to become filthy rich, just corruption. When the state is so big I need to earn three or four dollars to earn a dollar for myself (the balance being paid for by loans we don't intend to pay back) the easiest route to becoming filthy rich isn't serving customers, but sucking up to the mega state.
I remember reading a long time ago that a disgust over disease or uncleanliness was a Hallmark of fascist/natsoc ideology. Ironic that then people call others Nazis for not caring so much about a virus.
If I'm paying to have one for a certain period of time they are.
Different if you get paid piecemeal or work different shifts different times of the day, but double dipping is grossly unethical.
Different if you get paid piecemeal or work different shifts different times of the day, but double dipping is grossly unethical.
There's an old saying: "you can make a million dollars honestly and fairly. But you can't make a billion."
I guess you'll be ok if your landlord rents your apartment to different people when you're not in it without telling you?
I mean, you're not using it when you're out.
I mean, you're not using it when you're out.
Best buy might have stuff to buy, but every time I've walked in looking for a thing and using their sales people it's been a fail.
Around 2011 I was looking for a gaming laptop. They found me a laptop that was great....that had Intel graphics. Great. I went to a different store that hooked me up with a great laptop with a GeForce 745M that I used for like 5 years.
Around 2011 I was looking for a gaming laptop. They found me a laptop that was great....that had Intel graphics. Great. I went to a different store that hooked me up with a great laptop with a GeForce 745M that I used for like 5 years.
Our brains are wired for what allows us to survive and replicate, not for what is true. It's a difficult thing for human beings to engage in the truth. We have to fight for it and once we've achieved it's not what we wanted it to be because the world outside of us doesn't give a rats ass what we want to be true.
I'd say it's less sad and more a requirement. You can't have a species committing suicide en masse once it reaches a point it can realize the horror of reality.
I'd say it's less sad and more a requirement. You can't have a species committing suicide en masse once it reaches a point it can realize the horror of reality.
A lot of the ships burn stuff way worse than diesel, as well.
I worked with bunker oil before, it's the nastiest shit you can imagine. You need to heat it up just to get it to start flowing, and you can burn it all you want in international waters. I was working with it in a jurisdiction with few environmental restrictions, it wasn't acceptable most places...
I worked with bunker oil before, it's the nastiest shit you can imagine. You need to heat it up just to get it to start flowing, and you can burn it all you want in international waters. I was working with it in a jurisdiction with few environmental restrictions, it wasn't acceptable most places...
Not to mention whatever generating station produced the electricity.
I think there's inarguably value in having sustainable power generation, we have to be very careful because it's very easy to leave out a step and think that you have something that is much better than it really is. A lot of our so called Green solutions simply involve move pollution to somewhere they don't care about pollution. We end up looking fantastic and meanwhile we make countries like Russia, china, and Saudi Arabia rich.
I think there's inarguably value in having sustainable power generation, we have to be very careful because it's very easy to leave out a step and think that you have something that is much better than it really is. A lot of our so called Green solutions simply involve move pollution to somewhere they don't care about pollution. We end up looking fantastic and meanwhile we make countries like Russia, china, and Saudi Arabia rich.
If I can afford a $60,000 electric vehicle, I'm probably not in that much trouble when my hydro bill goes way up.