"it's not often a company builds something and tells you not to buy it"
Laughs in film industry
Laughs in film industry
Ngl, if it was over 9000 degrees in the afternoon and air conditioning won't be invented for another 500 years I'd siesta like a motherfucker.
I mean, the US federal government was supposed to be the most strictly limited government on earth and look at it now. I think it proves you right. Hence why libertarianism can only be a platonic form of itself, it is immediately going to be sullied upon contact with the outside world.
I'd assume it would be a blanket thing. I dunno, wouldn't sign an NDA, and my hearing is still good enough I couldn't work with crowder.
Bahahahhahahahaha
Grandpa you gotta get your eyes checked, and turn up your hearing aid!
Grandpa you gotta get your eyes checked, and turn up your hearing aid!
In a libertarian utopia, I'd expect debt would be greatly minimized because special companies wouldn't be given the magical ability to create the common currency our of thin air OR there would be a variety of competing currencies and if companies magically created their own currency out of thin air it'd end up not used as much as one that better holds its value.
Not just central banks can print money -- normal banks magic money into existence through virtually unbacked debt and while fractional reserve banking may exist it would be a much higher risk endeavor subject to routine bank runs because people could and would demand their money back and the fraud that is the bank could not return it.
It's entirely possible and probable that people using a currency without magagovernments backing them would demand something backed by something of value or otherwise protected by devaluation caused by magical money printing.
Banking and debt is so deeply entrenched with the state at this point, I don't think we can correctly conceive of just how different things would look without it all. I doubt credit cards would even be a thing.
In the current system, a credit card represents money that was spent and magically spawned into existence so if you have $50,000 in credit card debt that's a you problem unless and until you go bankrupt. If they had to back it up if someone came looking for that money, they wouldn't possibly want to so cavalierly lend random amounts to random people for random purposes.
Not just central banks can print money -- normal banks magic money into existence through virtually unbacked debt and while fractional reserve banking may exist it would be a much higher risk endeavor subject to routine bank runs because people could and would demand their money back and the fraud that is the bank could not return it.
It's entirely possible and probable that people using a currency without magagovernments backing them would demand something backed by something of value or otherwise protected by devaluation caused by magical money printing.
Banking and debt is so deeply entrenched with the state at this point, I don't think we can correctly conceive of just how different things would look without it all. I doubt credit cards would even be a thing.
In the current system, a credit card represents money that was spent and magically spawned into existence so if you have $50,000 in credit card debt that's a you problem unless and until you go bankrupt. If they had to back it up if someone came looking for that money, they wouldn't possibly want to so cavalierly lend random amounts to random people for random purposes.
Seems to me that a lot of westerners are fundamentally disconnected from reality, in part because in spite of the imperfections of western society, it's the freest, safest, most equal society there is and possibly has ever been, and again while imperfect it also has things like relative legal consistency giving a modicum of fairness. As a result, people can get the mistaken impression that this state is normal when it's highly unusual and extremely fragile, and most societies today and throughout history have been brutal, tyrannical, strongly hierarchical, and unfair.
Two other factors contribute to this. First, western society in general has become extremely insular and doesn't know about other cultures except through its own narrow lens, so a lot of people might only know messages tailored for western audiences that sand over the fundamental value differences between cultures. Second, the boomer ethic says that the worst thing you can possibly do is judge someone so there's a reflex against judging things we ought to consider evil in spite of the glaring evil of the thing.
Most people don't know, for example, that muslims were unrepentant slavers, and the only reason the descendants of those slaves aren't around is their practice of castrating slaves. The only reason the slave trade ended was European imperialism imposing that behavior upon the entire world. Modern Muslim scholars saying slavery is wrong are likely engaging in an ex post facto rationalization of something that now is the norm. It is not clear that slavery wouldn't return once western political influence fades.
Another issue is the nature of the family structure of Islamic society. It is a true patriarchy with the eldest father having overwhelming control over the clan including all the sons, and it is also a society that allows cousin marriage, something that Christianity by contrast prohibited. This family structure puts women at the very bottom of the hierarchy since the sons who are dominated by the father need someone to dominate in turn, and the only saving grace for women in the Islamic world is that wives are often already closely related by blood. For western or westernized women who go to isis territory, they'll have the one downside without the other upside.
To be clear, I am not stuck in traffic in any of these regards, I am traffic. A little bit of study here and there doesn't mean I'm not still seeing the world through a western Christian liberal democratic lens, and it's only through the Herculean efforts of some truly gifted individuals that I have the slightest understanding that all I'm seeing are shadows on the wall and that there's a real world outside that's much different.
Two other factors contribute to this. First, western society in general has become extremely insular and doesn't know about other cultures except through its own narrow lens, so a lot of people might only know messages tailored for western audiences that sand over the fundamental value differences between cultures. Second, the boomer ethic says that the worst thing you can possibly do is judge someone so there's a reflex against judging things we ought to consider evil in spite of the glaring evil of the thing.
Most people don't know, for example, that muslims were unrepentant slavers, and the only reason the descendants of those slaves aren't around is their practice of castrating slaves. The only reason the slave trade ended was European imperialism imposing that behavior upon the entire world. Modern Muslim scholars saying slavery is wrong are likely engaging in an ex post facto rationalization of something that now is the norm. It is not clear that slavery wouldn't return once western political influence fades.
Another issue is the nature of the family structure of Islamic society. It is a true patriarchy with the eldest father having overwhelming control over the clan including all the sons, and it is also a society that allows cousin marriage, something that Christianity by contrast prohibited. This family structure puts women at the very bottom of the hierarchy since the sons who are dominated by the father need someone to dominate in turn, and the only saving grace for women in the Islamic world is that wives are often already closely related by blood. For western or westernized women who go to isis territory, they'll have the one downside without the other upside.
To be clear, I am not stuck in traffic in any of these regards, I am traffic. A little bit of study here and there doesn't mean I'm not still seeing the world through a western Christian liberal democratic lens, and it's only through the Herculean efforts of some truly gifted individuals that I have the slightest understanding that all I'm seeing are shadows on the wall and that there's a real world outside that's much different.
Doesn't matter, the whole system has been dead for 4 years anyway(which I'm surprised at -- I thought it was before the pandemic it went down, but everything I've got suggests it was mid-2020)
A lot has happened in the past 4 years, hasn't it?
A lot has happened in the past 4 years, hasn't it?
Reminds me of newproject2, a patreon alternative set up by a comedian named Dick Masterson (who ran a couple instances for a while) and got shut down by the credit card processors.
It's fuckin bullshit. Sorry to hear it happening to you.
It's fuckin bullshit. Sorry to hear it happening to you.
I think you misunderstand. The inhibitors were released. Every one was on full display, just as Mark Twain wrote it back in the 19th century.
