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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

Governments want power particularly to do flashy things and say they give stuff to someone (especially their corporate sponsors) and this means being able to wield more of the economy to their own ends. This generally means being able to spend more money either without taking consequences for the inflation it creates because that would drive up price of living increases which are boring or without paying the real debt costs for what they've done. In a number of ways inflation allows politicians to spend more economic output over time without appearing to tax any more.

To this end, being able to spend more money through an invisible inflation tax on all income and savings and chip away at sovereign debts, they want to be able to create inflation without reporting that they're doing so. This has a number of benefits. Increasing debt does temporarily increase real economic output because it can bring future investments forward. Unreported inflation has an added benefit of appearing to grow real GDP whether there is growth or not since prices rise which is politically beneficial.

Central bankers ultimately work for the state which we get to see in many ways, so they've helped to increase unreported inflation by fudging the numbers, they've increased general indebtedness by artificially raising prices and lowering borrowing costs, and they help keep governments afloat by letting them to gather more taxes and inflate way their debts without appearing to inflate away their debts. Workers fall behind while the government gets to pretend they're doing so well.

The wage/price spiral is a wonderful bit of propaganda that blames the working and middle class for the effects of too much money in the system caused by the government and banks. Wages are just another price, workers getting fairly paid in terms of purchasing power isn't the cause inflation -- if they succeed and that looks like constantly rising wages despite stagnating purchasing power, then that's the nature of the broken system driving up all prices, not the nature of getting raises.

The ultimate effect of all this is to take power away from the masses and bring it together in the hands of the richest most powerful people on earth in ways that don't piss people off since you can raise their wages every single year and still be implementing across the board pay cuts every year, implement tax increases every year and benefit reductions every year while claiming you're doing the opposite, and slowly drive the working and middle classes into debt slavery without ever directly forcing them to do anything.

I liked this bot until it started posting a bunch of politifact garbage.

Internet Fact Checkers are like Pravda and Der Strumer rolled into one -- just tools for an evil establishment.

On paper central banks are independent, but in reality they aren't. That's why they keep making political choices instead of good choices.

In some ways, it reminds me of all those videos of 98 pound women wailing away on some big guy and he sits there and takes it, but then he swings one time and she hits the turf and she acts like the victim.

The fact that the adults in the room aren't misbehaving isn't evidence of the strength of those who do. It's evidence of the moral character of the people who are doing everything in their power to prevent what's about to happen because it will get super ugly. Can't last forever though.

I had some blackrock investments, but divested once I realized what I was into. Dodged a giant bullet in many ways!

I guess they're proving that stochastic terrorism is a thing by causing violence with their constant fearmongering and hate.

Lmfao it's like a sugar ant making threats to a tarantula.

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Searx life

Yes, and have an impartial third party determine inflation. Having the government declare inflation is like having a kid mark his own report card.

You're better off than if your wages didn't rise, but not better off than if they hadn't set off an inflation fire.

It's basically a hidden tax increase for everyone at the same time a lot of critical things are going up a lot faster than the headline inflation rate.

I mean, most of the people who will be replaced with chatgpt were just writing about how much they hate donald trump, so they could probably just keep doing that...

The best part of rising inflation is that when you get the wages to make more to deal with the rising cost of living, it's all at your top marginal rate so you get a tax increase and nowhere enough new money to live. It's great!

I don't think she wants to deal with 4 more years of politics. It was a difficult enough 4 years as it was.

sadly true.

As a general rule, trying to convince everyone on earth that you're right one person at a time is absurd. If you're in a smaller zone you might be able to convince the people around you if it's something arguable, but you won't convince the earth.

So why argue? In my view, the purpose is to find out if you're fully correct. Good arguments may or may not convince other people, but you can find out if you're personally wrong. Maybe the other person doesn't win the argument, but maybe they have some points you need to consider to have a fully cultivated worldview. Steel sharpens steel.

I love it when a plan comes together.
They don't know strange men pay to see my butthole meme surrounded by chad families

I want to make a meme "they don't know strange men pay to see my butthole"

Reality is that most "green energy" isn't cheaper than fossil fuels.

I saw some dumb git on TV claiming it cost 1/9th as much as fossil fuels, and that's simply a lie. You can tell it's a lie because anywhere that moves to solar and wind from coal or natural gas sees their electrical rates rise substantially.

The two forms of green energy that actually are cheaper than fossil fuels are hydroelectric and geothermal. In areas with plentiful hydroelectric and geothermal, power costs drop significantly. No wonder everyone hates hydroelectric in particular and actively works against it.

The big issue is that you need to actually make the power you need. You can put a nameplate on a power plant, but people's homes aren't heated using nameplates, they're heated using energy. If a plant doesn't produce the power it says it will, then the actual power that's left costs a lot more because everyone wants to not die of cold in winter and they'll pay what they need for that kW-h.

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